§ MR. DELANYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have received an application made on behalf of the occupiers of uneconomic holdings and labourers in the neighbourhood, requesting that the untenanted grazing farm of Turfarney, the property of the late A. J. Owen, J.P., Shanavahy, Queen's County, situated near Rathdowney, should be purchased by them 1677 for redistribution; and can he say what course the Commissioners propose taking in this matter.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have received the application referred to, and have informed the applicant that if the owner institutes proceedings for sale under the Irish Land Act, 1903, they will have the property inspected in due course.