Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 223: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if it is possible for a majority of landlords in a commonage area to agree to divide the land into individual plots. [15614/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Decisions affecting the structure of the holdings of shareholders in commonage land are a matter for the individual shareholders or owners themselves.

I understand that it is possible for the majority of shareholders of a commonage to pursue its division under the Partition Acts of 1868 and 1876 under which the High Court has the power to order the sale of such property and the division of the proceeds among the co-owners in proportion to their shares.