§ MR. P. C. DOOGAN (Tyrone, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is he aware that the Commissioners of Education, at a meeting of their board held several weeks ago, adopted a resolution accepting the offer 481 of the tenants to purchase their holdings on the Enniskillen estate, and empowering the Standing Committee to give effect to that resolution; if he can explain the cause of the delay on the part of the Standing Committee in commencing to carry out the sale of the estate; and whether he will take steps to have the proceedings expedited?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe acceptance by the tenants of the conditions on which the Commissioners are prepared to sell the holdings on this estate, was not communicated to the Commissioners until the 25th January, and was before the Standing Committee on the 8th February. There has been no delay in the proceedings, and the necessary steps are being taken to carry out the sale.