§ MR. DUFFYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether negotiations are going on between the Estates Commissioners and Mrs. Lewis, of Balinagar, Woodford, County Galway, in respect of the reinstatement of the Lewis evicted tenants; and whether, in view of the large number of uneconomic holdings on this estate, he will advise the Commissioners to acquire possession of all the untenanted land on this property in the interest of a general settlement.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that they have recently published notice of their intention to acquire compulsorily, under 359 the Evicted Tenants Act, 1907, some 350 acres of untenanted land on the estate in question.