asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries whether he intends to bring tenants who occupy lands on a grazing agreement renewed every year within the scope of the new Land Bill; whether the grazing tenants on the Bruen Estate at Kilmore, County Wexford, who did not come under the Land Act, 1923, and to whom the landlord would not consent to sell will be brought within the scope of the coming Land Bill, and whether he will have a clause inserted in the Bill to bring them and tenants situated like them the benefits of purchase.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Grazing Tenants on Bruen Estate (Wexford).
Mere grazing lettings of land could not be included as tenanted land within the scope of the Land Acts, even though continued over a number of years.
In the particular case mentioned by the Deputy the Land Commission in March, 1928, made an offer for the purchase of the lands as untenanted, but the offer was refused by the owner. The case will be looked into again.