§ MR. HUGH LAWTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners are now willing to permit the consolidation, for the purposes of sale, of the Brooke estate (Sir Arthur Wallace), situated between Foxhall and Churchill, County Donegal, with the estate held under the same title situated near Ramelton, with a view to facilitating the completion of the purchase transaction relating to the former.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners deal with estates in the order in which purchase agreements are lodged. In the case of the two estates referred to in the Question the agreements were lodged in July, 1905, and April, 1908, respectively. The Commissioners cannot see their way to give the second estate the same priority as that in which agreements were lodged nearly three years earlier.