The ground rents issue affects tens of thousands of people around the country. I think there is cross-party consensus on trying to resolve this. Does the Government have any plans to introduce legislation to try to finally resolve this issue?

The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, used to be against ground rents many years ago.

We had this problem for many years, whereby properties were subject to ground rents which were paid to absentee landlords. The Government changed the legislation many years ago to allow for those to be bought out, many were small in scale but that was changed. I will have to advise the Deputy on the question he raises.

It is a constitutional issue.