§ MR. GINNELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if the Irish Land Commission are willing, with the concurrence of a purchaser under one of the Purchase Acts prior to 1903, to buy up his interest in a non-residential grass farm, subject to a balance of annuities, with a view to immediately selling the farm to the Estates Commissioners for distribution among neighbouring people in need of land; and will the Irish Executive facilitate this project, in order to satisfy the needs of those people and check the further depopulation of the country.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Land Commission have no power to purchase a holding which is subject to the payment of annuities under the Land Purchase Acts.