§ MR. T. L. CORBETTI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the delay of the Land Commission in sub-dividing the holdings under the Labourers' Acts, and so hindering the provision of sanitary accommodation for the labourers; and what steps he proposes taking to remedy this delay.
MR. BRYCEIt is assumed that the hon. Member refers to cases in which rural district councils acquire, for the purposes of the Labourers' Acts, lands which form portions of holdings subject to the payment of land purchase annuities. I am informed by the Land Com mission that in all such cases they perform their statutory duty of apportioning the future payment of the annuities and communicate their decision to the parties interested with as little delay as possible.