§ MR. VINCENT KENNEDYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will say whether the Estates Commissioners have had the Atkins or Sinclair estate, Tullypunchion, Cootehill, County Cavan, inspected; if so, when did inspection take place; would he enumerate roughly the matters generally dealt with in these Reports and particularly in the Report referred to; have all the tenants signed purchase agreements; and, assuming the sale is otherwise in order, when will the tenants' holdings be vested in them.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners had an inspection made of this estate in July, 1907, and in the following October they issued queries upon the subject of the security for advances and in reference to the cases of four tenants who had not signed purchase agreements. They have since been in communication with the vendor's solicitors and agent in reference to the matter. It is expected that the queries will be disposed of and the holdings vested in the purchasing tenants before the long vacation.