Vol. 413 No. 5
53 Tomás Mac Giolla asked the Minister for Justice if it is intended that householders will still have to pay ground rent up to 1 January 1997; if householders will still be required to pay any arrears of ground rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
In my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 119 of 19 November 1991 indicated the position in relation to the Government's proposals on the abolition of remaining domestic ground rents as and from 1 January 1997.
Tenants who do not use existing legal provisions to terminate their ground rents will remain liable to pay them as well as any arrears which accumulate, save where the arrears or some element of them become statute barred under the terms of the Statute of Limitations Act, 1957. In this context I should mention that under the Government's proposals, to which I have referred, payment of compensation to the ground rent landlord would continue to apply on a similar basis as at present.
