Land market is only for the brave

THE recent clarification to the IFA from Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, that the constitutional review of property rights will not include farmland, needs to be set in stone.

As IFA President John Dillon said, at the time, the Taoiseach's clarification was welcome, because there was enough uncertainty in farming without concerns over a change in the constitutional position of farmland.

In this country, only one in 1,000 acres of farmland is estimated to come on the open market each year.