§ MR. ROCHE (Galway, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can say how many tenants on the Netterville Estate, county Galway, who have purchased their holdings are in possession of uneconomic farms; in how many cases did the gross purchase money not exceed £150; and whether, seeing that these holdings practically surround the Woodbrook Farm, recently purchased by the Congested Districts Board, the Board, in striping these lands, will take into consideration the claims of the Netterville tenants to increased holdings.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The purchase money of the nine holdings on the Netterville Estate which have been sold to tenants by the Board averages £271 for each holding. In every case the purchase money exceeded £150. These holdings do not surround the Woodbrook Farm; and no proceedings for the sale of the remainder of the Netterville Estate have been instituted before the Estates Commissioners.