§ MR. FAYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether he can inform the House on what basis the Irish Church Temporalities Commissioners have fixed the amount of the purchase money on 1293 sales to tenants of Church lands, whether by reference to the Ordnance valuation or to the rental?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in reply, said, the value of the holdings sold to tenants of Church lands had not been fixed by the Commissioners by a mere reference either to the Ordnance valuation or to the rental, but to the result of valuations carefully made on the spot by competent valuers.