LAND LAW (IRELAND) BILL. (Hansard, 12 June 1896)

§ SIR JOHN COLOMB (Great Yarmouth)
To move:— That it be an Instruction to the Committee that they have power to make provision for the inclusion of cottages and lands in the occupation of labourers paying rent for the same to boards of guardians.

§ MR. HORACE PLUNKETT (Dublin County, S.)
To move:— That it be an Instruction to the Committee that they have power to make provision empowering the Land Commission, out of the moneys provided by the Land Purchase (Ireland) Act, 1891, to make to landlords who are proved to have suffered loss of income through the operation of the Land Law (Ireland) Acts advances, in the prescribed manner and within limits fixed by the Committee, for the redemption of incumbrances affecting their estates; but so that any such advances shall be a first charge on such estates and shall not exceed in the whole one-half of the amount which in the opinion of the Land Commission is the value of such estate.

§ * MR. SPEAKER
There are on the paper two Instructions, the first standing in the name of the hon. Member for the Yarmouth Division. That is out of order. It is of the highest importance that instructions should be perfectly clear in their terms, that the Committee may understand definitely what provisions the House desires that it should take into consideration. In the present Bill there is a reference to labourers' cottages under Section 33, and to certain regulations that may be made to facilitate the 978 purchase of land for cottages, and this Instruction merely states— That the Committee have power to make provisions for the inclusion of cottages and lands in the occupation of labourers paying rent for the same to boards of guardians. That gives no intimation to the Committee what the provisions are which the House desires the Committee should take into their consideration; so I think the Instruction is bad for want of clearness and definite direction. The next Instruction is in the name of the hon. Member for South Dublin, and proposes that the Committee have power to make provision empowering the Land Commission, out of money provided by the Land Purchase Act of 1891, to make to landlords in certain cases advances for the redemption of incumbrances. That may be a subject of great importance and worthy of discussion, but it cannot in my opinion, be properly entertained upon an Instruction to the Committee on this Bill, which deals with the relations of landlord and tenant; I think it is beyond the scope of the Bill, and on that ground out of order.