§ MR. HAMMOND (Carlow)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Estates Commissioners have already advanced purchase money on the Beresford estate, Carlow County; that the farm at Kilcloney, on the same estate, from which Mr. Walters had been evicted, can be regarded as a separate estate; that the vendor 601 agreed to accept the amount of purchase money allocated for this farm by the inspector of the Estates Commissioners, and that the evicted tenant agreed to buy on the same terms; and, under these circumstances, why has the purchase money for this farm not been advanced, and why has the evicted tenant not been reinstated.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) I am informed by the Estates Commissioners that a portion of the estate in question has been sold by the landlord to the tenants by direct sale. The Commissioners are in negotiation for the purchase of the residue of the estate, including the townland of Kilcloney, upon which it is proposed to reinstate certain evicted tenants. The sale has not yet been completed, owing to a difficulty concerning a right of way for the landlord to which objection is made by one of the evicted tenants proposed to be reinstated. The matter is under consideration.