Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent public concern, namely, on this, the centenary of the death of Michael Davitt, a decent Mayo man, the necessity for the Taoiseach to make a statement to the House outlining the reason the scourge of landlordism has been allowed to continue to plague the Irish people in the form of ground rents; and the reason no legislation to abolish ground rents has been brought forward despite there being no apparent political opposition to abolishing them, when the cost to the Exchequer would be negligible and many people, the elderly in particular, continue to find themselves at the mercy of unscrupulous absentee landlords who are demanding huge sums on the expiration of leases.

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