§ MR. JOHN O'DONNELL (Mayo, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a shopkeeper, named Martin May, who is a shopkeeper in Ballinrobe, county Mayo, in 1900 took a grazing farm at Mile Hill, near that town, part of which he set for conacre last year; and, if so, whether the Estates Commissioners have power to give a grant of money to this man to purchase the farm in view of the fact that there are many congested townlands in the vicinity.
§ MR. JOHN O'DONNELLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Congested Districts Board or the Estates Commissioners will consider the advisability of purchasing a grazing farm situate at Mile Hill, near Ballinrobe, county Mayo, now held by a shopkeeper named May, residing in Ballinrobe, with a view to creating some 1307 new holdings for persons in that district who have no land.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) So far as can be ascertained no application has been made either to the Commissioners or the Board for the purchase of the lands in question.