§ MR. PATRICK WHITE (Meath, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have purchased the unteuanted lands on the De Montalt estate, Dundrum, county Tipperary; if applications for the lands received from evicted tenants in the immediate district, in deference to the public opinion of the locality, will have priority over claimants from other parts of the country, and whether the Commissioners, in order to avoid anything in the nature of friction, will reinstate the evicted tenants of county Tipperary to any lands in their possession before introducing applicants from other counties.
§ (Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners are negotiating for the purchase of this estate under Section 6 of the Act of 1903. In the event of their acquiring the property they will, when disposing of the untenanted land, give prior consideration to the applications of evicted tenants resident in the neighbourhood.