§ MR. DELANY (Queens County, Ossory)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Estates Commissioners have sanctioned the sale of one division of Sir Algernon Coote's estate at Rearymore, Queen's County, and that the Kyle portion of the property has been offered to the tenants at twenty-three years purchase; whether he is aware that three tenants on this estate, who recently went into court, got reductions varying from twenty-six to forty per cent., which have been appealed against; and whether the Estates Commissioners will approach Sir Algernon Coote, with a view of effecting the sale of this estate.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that in August, 1905, agreements for the purchase of a portion of the estate referred to, including the townland of Rearymore, were lodged with them, but the portion in question has not yet been declared to be an "estate," and the advances have, therefore, not been sanctioned. The Commissioners have no knowledge of the number of years purchase at which the Kyle 1348 portion of the estate has been offered to the tenants, nor of the result of the fair rent proceedings. The Commissioners, however, will, when dealing with the question of declaring the lands to be an estate, consider whether the Kyle property ought to be included in the sale.