§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSY (Limerick, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can say whether the sale of the Mount Shannon estate, in the county of Limerick, to the Estates Commissioners, has been completed, and when will the evicted tenants, to whom allotments of the untenanted land on the estate have been made, get possession of the same; and whether they will get grants for the purpose of restocking the land, to enable them to begin life on a sound financial basis.
1077 (Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners are negotiating for the purchase of the estate of Mrs. Nevins, Mount Shannon, but the purchase has not yet been completed. The questions of allocating the lands, and of making grants to evicted tenants who may be allotted holdings, cannot be decided until the sale has been completed.