§ MR. GINNELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland is it the policy of the present Government to allow the tenant-right or occupation interest, which the Land Act of 1881 secured to tenants and enabled them to sell, together with the tenant's unexhausted improvements, to be confiscated in purchase transactions under the Land Act of 1903, as in the case of King-Harman and Hayes and the numerous cases now ruled without trial by that decision; and how do the Commissioners reconcile their evidence in that case, and the decision to advance public money to a landlord for the whole property of which he owned only a part, with their subsequent assertion that no such thing is occurring.
MR. BRYCEIt is not the policy of the present Government to allow tenant right or unexhausted improvements to be confiscated. The latter part of the Question raises matters of argument which cannot be dealt with in an Answer.