Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 601: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a detailed response to correspondence, details supplied, will be furnished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15340/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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I have reviewed the correspondence in this case. I appreciate that the issues involved have caused some considerable distress to the persons named above. Officials in my Department have considered this case on a number of occasions and have advised the persons named that my Department cannot intervene in the case as the difficulties that arose are a private law matter between the lessor and the lessee, the persons named above. The lease involved was terminated following a court order sought by and granted to the lessor. It was presumably open to the persons named to appeal this order if they so wished. My Department has no choice but to abide by the court order until such time as it is altered or the case appealed. A detailed reply was issued to the persons named last December.