§ MR. GINNELLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland when, in a district in which land is much needed for the relief of uneconomic holdings and the prevention of emigration, a purchaser under previous purchase Acts offers untenanted land subject only to a balance of annuities payable to the Irish Land Commission, and when the only requirement is an accountant's adjustment of a single transaction between the two purchase departments of the Land Commission, will he, in the public interest, ask those departments to make the necessary adjustment and allow the transaction to go through; and will he have this done in the case of the Gregg Estate at Culvin, Streete, Westmeath.
§ (Answered by Mr. Birrell.) It has been judicially decided that, having regard to the provisions of Section 9 (4) of the Purchase Act of 1891, an advance cannot be made under the Land Purchase Acts for the purchase of any holding which is already charged with an annuity in respect of an advance under the Acts.