§ MR. P. A. MCHUGH (Leitrim, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state, in terms of years purchase, the price agreed upon by the 3,070 occupiers who have arranged to purchase their holdings under the Irish Land Purchase Act of 1903.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) Periodical Reports of the proceedings of the Estates Commissioners will be laid before Parliament in pursuance of Section 23 (14) of the Act of 1903. An examination of the 3,070 agreements already lodged with a view to the tabulation of particulars respecting the terms of purchase in each case would entail an immense amount of labour on the staff of the Commissioners at a time when they are burdened with many onerous duties, and I would deprecate the practice of calling for voluminous interim Returns within so short a period of the date at which the Act came into operation.