HC Deb 12 July 1906 vol 160 c1067
MR.GINNELL (Westmeath, N.)

I "beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland will the inquiry for which a Royal Commission is to be appointed be an inquiry into uneconomic agricultural holdings whether isolated or not, or will it be restricted to congestion, as defined by existing statutes; and will it be also an inquiry into untenanted land as the material from which the present uneconomic condition of Ireland has to be relieved.

THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND: (Mr. BRYCE,) Aberdeen, S.

The inquiry will relate to congestion generally, and will not be limited to the districts now scheduled under the Act as congested. It will include the question of obtaining untenanted land as a means of relieving congestion and creating economic holdings.