§ MR. FLAVINI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state whether the Irish Government or the Estates Commissioners have issued any instructions whereby cottiers or sub-tenants occupying agricultural holdings are debarred from negotiating or purchasing their holdings under the Land Purchase Act of 1903; and, if not, can he say whether a sub-tenant or a cottier have the right to purchase their holdings when an estate is being sold of which their holdings form a part.
§ MR. WALTER LONGThe only tenants who can purchase under the Purchase Acts are tenants in occupation. Under the 15th Section of the Act the Estates Commissioners have power to declare that a sub-tenant, to whom the tenant has let portion of the holding, shall be deemed to be the tenant of that portion so as to enable the sub-tenant to purchase. Paragraphs 15 and 19, Part 1, of the instructions of the 9th February last deal with this matter.
§ MR. FLAVINWho is to act on behalf of the sub-tenant?
§ MR. WALTER LONGasked for notice