§ MR. HAZLETONTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland what the Estates Commissioners propose to do with the 300 acres of grazing land on the Golding Estate, near Headford, county Galway, which has been purchased by them; whether they will enlarge uneconomic holdings in the district and allot portions of the land in question to local residents with capital enough to stock portions allotted to them.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that negotiations for the sale to them of the estate in question have been instituted by the owner, but that they have not yet acquired the same. If they should purchase the estate they will, when distributing the untenanted land, have due regard to the wants and circumstances of persons resident in the neighbourhood.