§ COLONEL KING-HARMANasked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, How many applications have been made to the Land Commission of Ireland by owners of property to effect sales to their tenants; how many sales have been effected in pursuance of such applications; and, what amount of business, if any, has been done by the Purchase Department of the Land Commission Court since the passing of the Land Act, 1881?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. PORTER),in reply, said, there had been only two applica- 555 tions in cases where the rent-roll was over £5,000 a-year, and in both of these cases the tenants declined to pay the lowest sum which the landlords would take, and so the negotiations fell through. In other branches of the Land Sales Department there had been 405 loans applied for, amounting to £501,973. Of these, up to the present, 286 loans, representing £125,799, had been sanctioned, and 133 sales completed, and loans issued amounting to £59,426.
§ MR. SEXTONasked whether the Attorney General for Ireland would lay a Return on the Table embodying these facts?