§ MR. J. P. FARRELLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to state the grounds upon which the proposal to purchase a house and an acre of land on the farm of Samuel Burnett, at Abbeydarrig, Kenagh, County Longford, by the occupying tenant, Mrs. Ellen Reilly, was refused by the Land Commission; and whether, seeing that the inspector led the parties to believe that the purchase would be sanctioned, he will explain on what grounds sanction was refused.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) No agreement was entered into with Mrs. Reilly for the purpose of making her a direct tenant of the landlord with a view to the purchase by her of the small plot in question. She has been informed by the Land Commission that the advance applied for by Samuel Burnett had been provisionally sanctioned, and that no ruling had been made that she should purchase the portion of the holding held by her as sub-tenant.