§ Mr. P. J. O'SHAUGHNESSYasked the Chief Secretary if he can say whether the Estates Commissioners have purchased the untenanted lands on the Vereker estate, situate near Abbeyfeale, in the county of Limerick; if so, whether they have yet apportioned them, and to whom; and whether they have given the labourers of the district any portion of the lands?
§ Mr. CHERRYThe Estates Commissioners inform me that they have allotted the 81 acres of untenanted land on this estate among five of the tenants on the estate.
§ Mr. O'SHAUGHNESSYMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether the claims of the labourers in the district were considered in allotting this land, and whether it is a fact that the Estates Commissioners have given a large portion of it to a farmer who already holds 70 acres?
§ Mr. CHERRYI am afraid I cannot answer either of those two questions. The hon. Member had better put them down upon the Paper.