asked the Minister for Agriculture when and why the Moore estate, Clownings, Newbridge, County Kildare, was transferred by the Land Commission to a company.
Written Answers. - County Kildare Estate.
118.
This estate was never owned by the Land Commission and accordingly there was no question of transferring it to a company. The position is that an application by a company for the consent of the Land Commission under section 45, Land Act, 1965, to the purchase of the property was refused in December 1978. Following a request for reconsideration of this decision, the Land Commission reviewed the case and in the light of the circumstances then obtaining granted their consent to the transaction in January 1980.
The determination of applications under section 45 is a matter reserved to the commissioners.