§ MR. JOHN O'DONNELL (Mayo, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners or the Congested Districts Board have taken any steps to purchase, from the Land Judge's Court, a grazing farm situate at Mile Hill, adjacent to the town of Ballinrobe, in the county of Mayo, the lease of which is about to expire, and which is at present let for grazing purposes to a shopkeeper named May, who resides in Ballinrobe, with a view to having it split up for the purpose of relieving congestion or creating new holdings on which some young men might be planted who have now to leave the country in search of a livelihood.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners are unable to identify the property referred to, but if the owner's name be furnished to them they will 1248 make further inquiries. The Congested Districts Board have taken no steps to purchase the property.