Dáil Éireann - Volume 26 - 01 November, 1928

CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - TURBARY ON MAYO ESTATE.

Mr. KILROY Mr. KILROY

Mr. KILROY asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries whether he will consider the advisability of letting the tenants of Cloughmore, Achill, turbary on the Pike Estate, which is at present in the hands of the Irish Land Commission, and upon which they can obtain turf within one mile and a half of their homes.

Mr. RODDY Mr. RODDY

Mr. RODDY: The Land Commission will consider whether the tenants at Cloughmore can be provided with turbary on the lands referred to.

Mr. KILROY Mr. KILROY

Mr. KILROY: I wish to remind the Parliamentary Secretary that the people concerned in the Cloughmore district have to go fourteen miles by sea for turf in the winter, and that it is important that they should get turf in that district.

Mr. RODDY Mr. RODDY

Mr. RODDY: I think I informed the Deputy last week that this turbary was quite useless to these people unless a road was made into the bog and that the people through whose land the road will pass object to its being made.

Mr. KILROY Mr. KILROY

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[1299] Mr. KILROY: I do not know that the people who object have anything to do with the land except they are grazing it.

Mr. RODDY Mr. RODDY

Mr. RODDY: They have signed agreements for this land.

Mr. KILROY Mr. KILROY

Mr. KILROY: If they are all cotenants I do not see why the Land Commission should not give them the turbary required and make the road compulsorily, if necessary.

Mr. GOOD Mr. GOOD

Mr. GOOD: We have enough compulsion.

Dáil Éireann 26 CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. TURBARY ON MAYO ESTATE.

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