Brendan Ryan (Labour)

Another statute dealt with the abandonment of railways. It makes one wonder how much the world really changes. I was fascinated by the Tithing of Turnips Act 1835. I accept the Minister of State may not be able to cast some light on this, unless he has been doing a wonderful amount of reading. Why is legislation dealing with the tithing of turnips which have been severed from the ground being retained?

Joking apart, this is a wonderful exercise in learning our social, as distinct from our military, history. Why does this revision exercise begin with legislation from 1169? Ireland had a code of law before 1169.