MR. P. A. MCHUGHTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in regard to the Owen Wynne Estate, county Sligo, of which the sale was completed on the 8th February, 624 1906, whether he can state the names and addresses of the tenants whose holdings were excluded from the estate for sale; how many holdings were excluded on the ground that they would not afford security for the advances applied for; were all the holdings, for which advances were made, inspected; can he state in terms of years purchase the average price paid for non-judicial, first term, and second term, rents on the estate sold; whether the Estates Commissioners have considered the confusion likely to result from the exclusion of isolated holdings from the estates within which they are situate, and their subsequent inclusion in estates from which they are separated and whether, in regard to the estates sold, any public notice was given locally of the holdings excluded.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissoners inform me that the holdings of fourteen tenants were excluded from the sale of this estate. I am forwarding to the lion. Member the names and addresses of these tenants. In eight of the cases the advances were refused on the ground of insufficient security. In cases outside the zones the holdings were inspected, but there was no inspection in cases within the zones. The average number of years purchase of the rents was in the case of non-judicial rents, 24.1; first term rents, 22.8; second term rents, 26.6 The Commissioners do not consider that the exclusion of holdings from the estate in which they are situate and their subsequent inclusion in other estates causes any serious confusion. No public notice as to the excluded holdings was given, but notice was given to the tenants concerned.