§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether any effect has been given to the recommendations of the Trinity College, Dublin, Estates Commission; and whether it is intended to introduce legislation this session to enable lessees, holding under leases originally made for terms of ninety-nine years, under The Trinity College, Dublin, Leasing and Perpetuity Act, 1851, to sell, as immediate landlords under the Land Purchase Acts, in the same manner as if not less than sixty years of the said terms were unexpired.
§ MR. BIRRELLI find that this Question was fully debated in this House on 3rd April last,†when the hon. Member took part in the discussion. My right hon. friend the Attorney-General for Ireland then stated on behalf of the Government that it would be time enough several years hence to consider whether the wide recommendations of the Commission should be carried into effect, and that the Government could give no pledge to deal with the matter during that or any other session. The position remains unaltered.
§ MR. LONSDALEIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that some thousands of these tenants are deprived of the advantages of the Land Act of 1903 in consequence of the condition referred to in the Question.
§ MR. BIRRELLI am afraid I cannot go back on my Answer.