§ MR. CLANCY (Dublin County, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether a considerable portion of the Cautwell Estate, in the county of Dublin, which has been purchased by the Estates Commissioners, has been sold by them to a person who was neither a tenant on the estate nor an evicted tenant, nor a small tenant on a neighbouring estate; and, if so, by what authority such a sale was authorised.
§ MR. WALTER LONGThis estate, which was purchased by the Estates Commissioners under Section 6 of the Irish Land Act, 1903, has been sold to six persons. Two of these persons were tenants on the estate and at the same time tenants on an adjoining estate; two others were evicted tenants; and the remaining two were the representatives of deceased evicted tenants. The provisions of Section 2 (1) apply to each of these purchasers.