§ MR. GILHOOLYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Bird, Beamish, Bandon, and O'Donovan estates, Kilcrohan parish, county Cork, recently purchased by the Congested Districts 1274 Board, will be resold to the tenants, who are poor at a loss of 10 per cent., as is allowed under the Act of 1903.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The provision in the Irish Land Act, 1903, for the re-sale of congested estates at a loss not exceeding 10 per cent., applies to purchases by the Land Commission, and not to purchases by the Congested Districts Board, who have full power to sell at any such prices as they may think fit. The estates referred to in the Question have not yet been legally vested in the Board, and, until that is done, arrangements for re-sale cannot be made.