Enright, TomWednesday, 3 May 1978 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents) (No. 2) Bill, 1977: Committee Stage (Resumed).
I fully support some of the points made by Deputy O'Keeffe. Part III deals with the vesting of fee simple in dwellinghouses. It would appear from what was stated on the last occasion this matter wa...
All that is agreed.
In endeavouring to minimise the costs involved in this matter the Minister has made a special effort. In some instances we are dealing with quite valuable properties and what may be occurring is that...
The Minister has outlined the choices available but in the long term for the satisfaction of everybody it is essential that it would lead to the full freehold title. Section 23, as amended, agreed to....
I move amendment No. 45: In page 13, lines 40 and 41, to delete subsection (3). This section gives me some concern. This section deals with the duty of the Registrar of Titles as to applications under...
We are dealing with the vesting of fee simple in dwelling houses. The section deals basically with the order in which they are received under this part. Does the Minister intend to extend the five-y...
The Bill says: No action shall lie against the Registrar in relation to the duty imposed upon him under this section.
I am glad to have heard the Minister and I fully agree with most of what he says.
I have found the Minister most courteous and helpful. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Question proposed: “That section 24 stand part of the Bill.”
I am quite happy with the section as phrased. My amendment was designed to elicit a full explanation about the insertion of this exemption provision which I consider rather unique. I have had occasi...
I am opposed to this section. I have already given some reasons for my views. I believe that this is a matter that ideally should be dealt with at the different levels by the county registrar in the...
Ideally the applications should be processed through the county registrars and my view was reinforced when we were told that the vesting certificates will be furnished. This could be done by the coun...
I am not too clear about whether or not they have power. They are local officers.
I accept that their legal staff are very busy.
The Minister is continuing some of the terms and conditions in the lease for a period. If the tenant pays the purchase price that is due on the property why is it necessary to impose any terms and c...
I see the point, but under the present housing Acts I am sure the Minister is aware that people buying local authority houses must pay the full market value of the house.
I accept that there is a difficulty in that a wealthy speculator could buy up 100 dwelling-houses in an area and sublet them at enormous rents. That is a difficulty that must be faced. People buying...
In so far as the restriction on the terms and conditions only affects the right of resale to people who come within the meaning of the Labourers Acts—they are very wide and cover a multitude of people...
I am sure the Minister is aware that all leases are still working away on ground rents. I even saw them on leases yesterday. If I get a loan from a building society to build a house and later decide...
Do I take it that the local authority will have power to buy out the fee simple?
We then revert to the earlier section whereby the local authority had bought out the fee simple, but where does that leave the tenants of the houses later? Is the Minister dealing with the land on wh...
Who have sold their leasehold interest in the houses?
The local authority buy out the fee simple and grants fee simple to the tenants, subject to the restrictions we mentioned earlier?
I want to ask the Minister one simple question. I presume that the ordinary civil remedy he has referred to is that when a person is in arrears of rent for a period the landlord can sue in the courts...
If that is the position I would like to go on record as welcoming this section. The entitlement of a person to take possession of a dwelling-house if the occupant failed to pay the rent, which was of...
Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Bill, 1978: Committee Stage.
I understand what the Minister is saying about urban and rural areas but what is the position of a farmer with a valuation of £40 in County Clare and a valuation of £40 in County Galway?
I live in the town of Birr, but let us take the case of a person living a few miles outside that urban area. He has a farm which straddles the counties Offaly and Tipperary and has a valuation of £40...
This amendment is very welcome but what the Minister is doing is allowing people who are lucky enough to have land in two different counties to be granted rates relief in excess of £75, but every othe...
I am dealing with the amendment which caters for a certain section of the population who have land in two or three counties. I can see no logic in this. Why does the Minister not extend the remissio...
Take the case of a farmer with a valuation of £80 who is in Peamount Sanatorium, a married man with a wife and children attending secondary school who do not qualify for higher education grants. That ...
I am aware of that but I have never known a county manager to grant a waiver except to someone in a local authority house or someone who could prove destitution.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Courts Accommodation.
I accept that on occasion judges go on circuit, but is it not true that there are ten High Court judges and that there are eight rooms available, occasionally nine, but there is one judge who, with th...
My reason for raising this is because quite a number of practising barristers have told me that on occasions they have seen judges with no place available to sit. It is because of this that I raise i...
The Minister mentioned that the High Court goes on circuit to Cork, Kilkenny and a few other places. I suggest that the High Court should visit other towns on circuit. In its own way, this would lead...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Ground Rents.
Has the Minister done any research into this matter? I have seen two instances recently of the kind mentioned by Deputy Browne. There are builders proceeding with ground rents.
Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Bill, 1978: Committee Stage (Resumed).
There has not been any opposition to the amendment from this side. We are only looking for clarification. We want the reliefs to continue as heretofore. I will put a few questions to the Minister. ...
Why did the Minister not include this amendment in the original Bill? The reason is that the Minister did not realise the opposition this Bill would have from the farming community and belatedly he d...
The Minister's advisers and his colleagues in the Cabinet and a number of backbenchers read it and made him realise the strength of the opposition to the Bill among the farming community. He believes...
Before the lunch interval the Minister said a county manager would have power to grant rates relief to a person who, through ill health, got into financial difficulties and found himself unable to pa...
I am pointing out the inequity of the system the Minister is perpetrating.
One of the greatest guides that the Minister can have in regard to the legislation before the House is the sight of empty Fianna Fáil benches. He is sitting there on his own because nobody else in Fi...
The position was similar on Second Stage. Two Fianna Fáil Members spoke on this measure in a most half-hearted manner. They knew it was unwise, unfair and discriminatory. I wonder if the Minister ha...
Safety in Industry Bill, 1978: Second Stage (Resumed).
We can wait.
This is a most comprehensive Bill. In his introductory speech on 25 April the Minister dealt at considerable length with a number of improvements from the point of view of safety in industry. The im...
Anything I attend I participate in.
The point I want to get across to the Minister is that the hearing of our youth is in serious danger. There is a danger that in years ahead we will have a generation coming out of dance halls and lou...
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