§ MR. GINNELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will ascertain and state what is the statutory provision which the Estates Commissioners think limits their discretion in the matter of price to the gross security, and precludes them from taking cognisance of the fact that the tenant-right or occupation interest and unexhausted improvements, forming part of that gross security, are legally and equitably the tenant's property, and should not have to be bought by him with public money.
MR. BRYCEThe Question raises points of law as to which it would be undesirable for me to state the views held by the Estates Commissioners, seeing that the Questions may at any time be the subject of judicial decisions which would govern their action.