Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 482: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the original landowners have the right to re-purchase lands where agencies under his aegis purchased lands under the Turf Acts for the purpose of peat extraction and where those lands are no longer used for their original purpose by those agencies; if so, the impact of the rate of inflation upon such re-purchases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35814/10]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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The matter in question is a day-to-day operational function of Bord Na Móna and not one in which I have a function. I have been advised by Bord na Móna that all rights, title and interests over the lands in question were purchased between 1959 and 1973. The company has continuing development plans in this area and is not in a position to return the lands to any former owners or rights holders.