§ MR. FLAVINI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can say if about 1,000 830 acres of untenanted land on Lord Listowel's estate, North Kerry, have been offered to the Estates Commissioners for the enlargement of uneconomic holdings, the reinstatement of evicted tenants, and, the giving of small holdings to labourers; and whether he can say what action the Estates Commissioners have taken in connection with the purchase of these untenanted lands.
MR. BRYCEThe Estates Commissioners inform me that 746 acres of untenanted land on the estate in question have been offered for sale to them. The Commissioners have had the land inspected and have now received their inspector's report, but they have not yet had time to consider it.
§ MR. FLAVINAs there is an important legal question involved in connection with this estate, will the right hon. Gentleman represent to the Estates Commissioners the desirability of dealing with those untenanted lands as a separate estate in order to facilitate the reinstatement of the evicted tenants?
§ MR. FLAVINIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the untenanted land has been offered as a separate estate?