§ MR. WILLIAM O'BRIENI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has observed that the secretary of the Cork County Council has reported that of £88,000 due in rates for that county for the last half-year only £172 remained uncollected at the date of the report; whether he is aware that Cork is the county where far the largest number of land purchases has taken place in Ireland; that arrears of instalments of purchase money due to the Land Commission in that county are virtually non-existent; that, no cattle-driving has taken place there; and that no extra police have had to be quartered on the county; and whether, in view of this state of facts, he will, in the highest interest of the Empire and of all parties in this House, accelerate and complete the abolition of dual ownership in the county of Cork and in the rest of Ireland.
§ MR. BIRRELLI am glad to say that the satisfactory description of the condition of the County Cork given by the hon. Member is substantially correct. It is the intention of the Government to do what it possibly can to make land purchase proceed as quickly as possible.