§ MR. CHARLES CRAIG (Antrim, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will lay upon the Table of the House the calculations which purport to show that £180,000,000 will probably be required for completing the policy of land purchase under the Irish Land Act, 1903.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) I have not suggested that £180,000,000 will probably be required to complete land purchase. I named that amount as the present estimate of the size of the problem as existing in 1903, assuming that land purchase was to be carried through to completion. A Return showing how that estimate was arrived at will be laid upon the Table in the course of a few days.