§ MR. ROCHE (Galway, E.)On behalf of the hon. Member for South Galway, I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether ho is aware that the seven tenants on Lord Killanin's property in the district of Creggs, Craughwell, county of Galway, have signed agreements to purchase their holdings at twenty-two-and-a-half years purchase, and that the size of six of the 765 holdings is seven acres each; and, if so, whether, seeing that a grazing farm consisting of 50 acres belonging to the said landlord is in the immediate neighbourhood, and in view of the uneconomic size of their holdings, the Estates Commissioners will withhold their sanction to these agreements until an effort is made by them to acquire the grazing farm in the interest of these small tanants.
§ MR. WYNDHAMWhen application is made to the Commissioners in respect of the proposed sales, they will have due regard to all the circumstances before sanctioning the agreements.