MR. JOHN O'DONNEL (Mayo, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Irish Land Commission or the Congested Districts Board will take steps to take over the grazing lands on the Brown Hall Estate, near Balla, County Mayo, now about being disposed of by the Court of Chancery, which have been in the hands of a large grazier since 1900, for the purpose of enlarging the holdings of the agricultural tenants on the estate, who are now about purchasing their holdings.
§ The following Question also appeared on the Paper.
§ MR. JOHN O'DONNELLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether his attention has been directed to the efforts made by the tenants on the Brown Hall Estate, near Balla, County Mayo, to obtain turbary on several neighbouring estates; and to the fact that there are on that estate, and on a grazing tract, held for the past two years by a resident in the town of Balla, about fifteen acres of excellent turbary; and whether, seeing that the remainder of this estate is about being sold to the tenants by the Court of Chancery, and that the tenants are prepared to give the same amount of purchase money for the turbary and grazing lands as they are giving for their holdings, he can take steps to have these fifteen acres divided among them.
§ * MR. WYNDHAMThis estate is administered in the Land Judge's Court. I have instituted inquiries in respect to the matters referred to in these Questions, which are in the name of the same hon. Member. These inquiries have not yet been completed, and I would ask him to postpone them for a day or two.