§ Mr. GINNELLasked by what procedure the congested tenants in Clonmellon and other portions of the Chapman estate, Westmeath, now deprived of employment and of trade, and left no alternative but land or emigration, could move the Estates Commissioners to purchase and distribute at once, under the powers conferred upon them by the Act of 1909, the untenanted land on that estate in which to their knowledge bogus tenancies were now being created?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe owner has instituted proceedings for the sale of this estate to the Estates Commissioners under the Land Purchase Acts, and it will be dealt with in its proper order. The Commissioners are not prepared to deal with the estate out of its turn. When on the lands the inspector will inquire as regards all tenancies on the estate, but the Commissioners have no information before them at present as to the creation of any bogus tenancies.