§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been directed to the amount of the money provided for the transfer of ownership of land in Ireland from landlords to peasants which is being paid to owners selling their demesnes and mansions to themselves, in cases with little land transferred to other persons and in cases with none; and, having regard to 1046 the prime purpose of the Land Purchase Acts, the difficulty of finding money for that purpose, and the wide discretion of Commissoners and of the Government, whether he can see his way to reserving for a time all advances for cases of real transfer and limiting advances for demesnes and mansions to cases in which a substantial portion of the same estate is being really transferred?
§ Mr. BIRRELLAdvances to owners to repurchase their demesnes are made in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Irish Land Act, 1903. The reply to the concluding portion of the question is in the negative.