§ MR. HAYDENI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland why a letter addressed to the Estates Commissioners last October by Michael Gilleran, Maggie Gilleran, Patrick Gilleran, Patrick Kelly, Thomas Burke, Patrick Moran, and Michael Nolan, relative to an agreement entered into with them by Mr. Holmes, agent of the Goff Estate, Kennity, county Roscommon, when the above-named tenants arranged to buy under the Land Purchase Act, 1903, has not been answered; and whether the Commissioners will proceed at once to investigate the claims of the tenants for the carrying out of the agreement on which they purchased, namely, that Mr. Holmes should have fourteen acres of their land, which they state is often covered with water for nine months in the year, drained, so as to make their land of use to them; and will he say whether the land was ever inspected.
§ MR. WALTER LONGThe lands in question have been inspected and reported on, but the letter referred to was not received until after the inspection had been made, and the matter, therefore, is not referred to in the report. The facts as to the alleged agreement will be inquired into before the advances are made.