§ MR. DELANYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, whether, taking into consideration the amount of interest charged during the first, second, and third decades of payment of the loan granted by the Land Commission in 1878 to Mr. Robert Pearson, of Clonmore, Errill, Ballybrophy, Queen's County, Ireland, for the purchase of the property known as Ballyquaide Glebe, Ballybrophy, Queen's County, and likewise the sum deducted from the amount of purchase money received by him for the sale of the same property to his tenants in 1904 under the Act of 1903, he will recommend a reasonable amount of cash being granted to him by the Estates Commissioners by way of allowance.
(Answered by Mr. Cherry.) I am informed by the Estates Commissioners that the sale of Mr. Pearson's estate to his sub-tenants was concluded and the purchase money distributed in July, 1906. The amount payable to the funds of the Church; property in discharge of mortgage debt due was correctly ascertained, and paid, and a subsequent mortgage debt was also paid. I have already furnished the hon. Member with a full statement giving full particulars of the amounts so paid and showing that they were legally ascertained in the proper manner. The Estates Commissioners inform me that there is no legal power to make a grant to Mr. Pearson as suggested in the concluding part of the Question.