§ MR. F. MANDEVILLE (Tipperary, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, are occupying ratepayers, who have purchased their landlord's interest in their farms (under the Ashbourne Acts), entitled to get the compensation awarded by the Local Government Board Arbitrator for the land they give to Poor Law Unions in Ireland for sites of labourers' cottages, and for allotments under the Labourers' Acts.
MR. J. MORLEYThe tenants who purchase their holdings under the Land Purchase Acts are entitled to the compensation or purchase money awarded by the Local Government Board Arbitrator for the land given up to Poor 1437 Law Unions in Ireland under the Labourers' Cottages Acts, &c., subject to the right of the Land Commission to require such compensation to be applied in discharge of any advances made by the Land Commission to enable the tenant to purchase his holding.