§ MR. SHEEHAN (Cork County, Mid.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether a Resolution has been received by the Estates Commissioners from the Macroom Rural District requesting them, in the event of their purchasing any estate in that district in which there is untenanted land, to allocate and divide up the same among evicted tenants, tenants of uneconomic holdings, and labourers skilled and unskilled, pursuant to the provisions of the Land Act of 1903, and further suggesting that the powers vested in the Commissioners for stocking and improving the portions of 1286 untenanted land so divided, and for helping the new occupiers to till the same, should be exercised as far as possible, and expressing the willingness of the district council to appoint trustees to carry out the provisions regarding labourers contained in the Act; and will he state what instructions have been given regarding this Resolution.
MR. BRYCEThe Estates Commissioners inform me that they have received a copy of the Resolution referred to in the Question, and that, in the event of their acquiring untenanted land in the district, they will duly consider the views expressed in the Resolution.