§ MR. CHARLES CRAIGI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the estate of Mr. W. Daly, of Dunsandle, near Loughrea, has been sold to the tenants; that Patrick Carr, a tenant on that estate who took a loading part in the agitation for the sale of the estate, instead of having his former holding sold to him, has been given a large holding on the estate of Captain Cowan, near Eyre Court, county Galway, 571 nearly twenty miles from his former holding; will he explain why was Carr's old holding not sold to him, and on what grounds, and under what authority and in pursuance of what section in the Land Purchase Act of 1903 have the Estates Commissioners acted in selling to him a holding on another estate when it was possible for him to purchase his own holding.
MR. BRYCEI am informed that the estate referred to has been sold to the tenants under an Originating Request lodged with the Estates Commissioners on August 31st, 1905. For the purpose of facilitating the resale and redistribution of the estate, the vendors arranged with Mr. Patrick J. Carr to surrender a holding of 289 acres on the estate on payment to him by the vendors of the sum of £1,000; and this area was purchased by the Estates Commissioners as other lands in the occupation of the vendors, for the purpose of enlarging holdings on the estate. Subsequently an advance for the purchase of a "parcel" on the estate of Stephen J. Cowan, county Galway, was made to Mr. Carr, under the provisions of Section 2, Sub-section (1) (d) of the Act of 1903.