§ MR. DUFFY (Galway, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state when the Report of the Estates Commissioners in connection with the purchase of the Lambert Minors Estate, Athenry, will be submitted to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland; is he aware that a number of decrees were taken out at the late quarter sessions held at Gort, and are now ripe for execution on this estate; and, in view of all the circumstances, will he consider the propriety of urging on the Estates Commissioners the desirability of sending in their Report at once, so that a settlement may be effected without putting the decrees into execution.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that they have had a preliminary inspection made of this estate, which is under the control of the Lord Chancellor during the minority of the owner. The inspector's Report is at present under the consideration of the Commissioners, who will 1074 intimate to the Lord Chancellor at an early date the sum which they would be prepared to offer for the purchase of the estate if formal proceedings for sale to them should be instituted under Section 6 of the Irish Land Act 1903.
In answer to a further Question, the right hon. Gentleman said he was doing I his best to expedite the inspection.