I propose, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, to take Questions Nos. 22, 23 and 24 together.
I would refer the Deputy to my reply to his previous question of 8th April, 1970, in which I gave a detailed account of the proceedings for compulsory acquisition of this estate, culminating in the owners' objection being allowed on 29th January, 1969, subject to the condition, inter alia, that the final order would not be made for a period of at least four years, so that the progress of the objectors' plans might be assessed.
The Deputy will appreciate that the matter before the court was the owners' objection to acquisition of the lands by the Land Commission, not the granting of permission to lay out a golf course. I shall arrange to have the Deputy supplied with a copy of the judgment, in which the evidence advanced on behalf of the owners is summarised.
The Land Commission have had no proceedings for the acquisition of rough non-agricultural land in the Oughterard district, suitable for a golf course.