§ Mr. JAMES O'KELLYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether a certain farm of 90 acres at Ballybroghan, near Tulsk, county Roscommon, on the estate of the late Ffrench Brewster, has been sold or is in treaty to be sold to the Estates Commissioners, or whether a neighbouring landlord named Mr. Richard Hague, J.P., who is himself an extensive grazier, has purchased, or is in treaty for the purchase of, the farm in question; and whether, seeing that in the immediate vicinity there are nine tenants with holdings valued at from 10s. to £9 who are anxious to have the 90 acres purchased by the Estates Commissioners for distribution amongst said tenants, he will say whether steps will be taken to secure this farm for these tenants.
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that this farm is not being sold to them, but the owner has entered into an agreement to sell it direct under the Irish Land Act, 1903, to Jane Hague, who appears to hold the land as tenant under a judicial rent fixed in 1891.