§ Mr. HOGANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether an advance has been sanctioned by the Estates Commissioners in respect of the farms of Garbally, King's County, landlord Ford, tenant Woods; Kilmorry, King's County, landlord Atkinson, tenant Carroll; Pike, Ballingarry, county Tipperary, landlord Treach, tenant Carroll; whether the tenant purchasers of these farms, Messrs. Woods and Carroll, have, since signing their purchase agreements, sold their interest to Messrs. Richard and Thomas Wallace and David Kenny, also purchasers on the same estate; and, if so, whether he will decline to sanction advances which would lead to the accumulation in the hands of these three gentlemen of an acreage of land contrary to the policy of the Land Purchase Act?
§ Mr. CHERRYNo advances have been made by the Estates Commissioners under the Irish Land Act, 1903, in respect of any of the lands referred to. An advance of £1,735 was made to Dalton Carroll by the Land Commission under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, for the purchase of the Pike farm at Ballingarry on the Trench estate. Carroll subsequently assigned the farm to H. Davis Kenny. Carroll has not been returned to the Estates Commissioners as tenant of any part of the lands of Kilmorry on the Atkinson estate. William E. Woods has signed, as tenant, an agreement to purchase 122 acres of the lands of Garbally on 1450 the Ford estate for £1,749, but no advance has yet been made to him. Inquiry will be made with regard to the other matters referred to in the question when the Ford and Atkinson estates are being dealt with by the Commissioners in their order of priority.