§ MR. JOHN ROCHE (Galway, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the cause of delay in giving the grass lands upon the Clancarty estate, near Ballinasloe, to the tenants as promised.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners have estimated a price for the untenanted land on the estate in question, and it is proposed that this land should be allotted to the tenants on the estate and sold to them with their holdings. The purchase agreements for the tenants' holdings have only now been lodged, and the sale therefore cannot be sanctioned for a considerable time to come. The Commissioners cannot deal with the untenanted land apart from the tenanted.