HC Deb 08 July 1909 vol 7 cc1395-6
Mr. D. D. SHEEHAN

I beg to present a Petition from the Urban District Council of Macroom (county Cork), as follows:—

"That landlords can now, as hitherto; at the termination of a Building Lease increase the rent of the leaseholders or tenants or capriciously evict them without any compensation whatever, and appropriate the buildings which they (the leaseholders) have erected with their own money, and enjoy the increased value of the buildings, which has been secured by expenditure of rates and taxes paid by the tenants or leaseholders, and to which the landlords have practically contributed nothing; and thus the great body f tenants or leaseholders in towns in Ireland, who hold houses or premises which they have built at their own cost, on ground leased from landlords, on comparatively short leases (at the highest rent which the landlords could possibly get for the land) have obtained no protection whatever under the Town Tenants (Ireland) Act, 1906."

The Petition is signed by the Chairman (JOHN O'SHEA) and the Town Clerk (T. MURPHY).