§ MR. S. YOUNG (Cavan, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with reference to the case of so-called town-parks in Ireland, whether he is aware of the strong feeling existing in Ireland as to the exclusion of these holdings from the benefit of the fair-rent provisions of the Land Acts; and whether, considering that the Cowper Commission recommended that, in order to exclude them, the town should have 5,000 inhabitants, and that in the Land Bill of 1887 adopted by the House of Commons it was provided that there should be no town-parks where the town did not exceed a population of 2,000 inhabitants, he will extend to the inhabitants of towns in Ireland the fair-rent provisions of the Land Acts in respect of the lands which they hold adjacent to such towns?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe question of town-parks has been considered in connection with the coming Land Bill, but it would be premature to disclose the provisions of the Bill prior to its introduction.