§ MR. O'DOHERTYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether an application has been made by Mr. Young to the Estates Commissioners to have his estate, situate at Culdaff, barony of Innishowen, county Donegal, sold to his tenants; how many, if any, agreements have been lodged by the landlord as signed by the tenants for the purchase of their holdings; and whether, seeing that a portion of this estate, situate in Glengad, is one of the most congested districts in the county of Donegal, and that on account of the price demanded from the tenantry on this portion of the estate none of them have 914 agreed to purchase, will the Estates Commissioners withhold their sanction of this sale to the tenants on the remainder of the estate until the landlord agrees to sell at a fair price the congested districts portion, either to the Congested Districts Board or to the tenants direct, at a price to be fixed by the Estates Commissioners.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) Agreements for the purchase of holdings were lodged in 204 cases; but before sanctioning the sale of any portion of this estate the Commissioners are considering the advisability of purchasing the Glengad portion of the estate under the provisions of Section 6 of the Irish Land Act, 1903, and, in that connection, contemplate having a further inspection made of this portion of the property.