§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork County, N.E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if the Estates Commissioners will explain why the holding of Mr. Thomas Sullivan, Pollardstown, on the Kingston estate, Mitchelstown, has not yet been included in the general sale and purchase of this estate; whether the price demanded by the landlord for the holding, upon which a second-term rent had been fixed, was twenty-six and a quarter years purchase, this price being refused by the tenant, who so informed the Commissioners, and they, on 24th March, 1907, sent Mr. Sydney Smyth to inspect the holding, and as a result reduced the price to twenty-three years purchase which the
§ Roscommon, Longford, King's, Sligo, Meath, and Westmeath, respectively; and if he will also state what is the approximate monthly cost for which these counties are at present severally liable, based on the strength of the extra police forces now assigned to each county.
§ (Answered by Mr. Birrell.)
§ tenant expressed his willingness to accept; and if this matter will receive the consideration of the Commissioners so that Mr. Sullivan may be enabled to purchase his holding upon the agreed terms.
§ (Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners understand that in the case of Thomas Sullivan, a judicial tenant, the vendor offered to sell the holding for £625, being a price within the zones, but the tenant declined to purchase at that price. The Commissioners have had the holding inspected and consider that £550 would be a reasonable price, but the vendor is unwilling to accept it. The Commissioners will endeavour to arrange this case and some others of the same kind in connection with the sale of the residue of the estate.