§ Mr. BOLANDasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland what progress has been made with the negotiations between the Congested Districts Board and Sir Morgan O'Connell for the purchase of his estate near Mastergeehy?
§ The CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Mr. Birrell)This property will be inspected, a valuation made, and a decision arrived at by the Congested Districts Board regarding purchase as soon as practicable.
§ Mr. HORNERasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will grant the Return in the terms of the Notice of Motion standing in the name of the hon. Member for South Tyrone.
2504 [Mr. Horner,—Irish Land Purchase Acts, 1870 to 1908,—Return giving for the several Irish Land Purchase Acts, 1870 to 1908, and for each year since they came into force, particulars under the following heads: (1) number of applications; (2) number granted; (3) number outstanding at the end of the year; (4) area applied for; (5) area vested; (6) area agreed to be sold but not vested; (7) Poor Law valuation of area applied for; (8) Poor Law valuation of area vested; (9) Poor Law valuation of area agreed to be sold but not vested; (10) purchase-money for lands vested; (11) purchase-money for lands sold but not vested; (12) value of annuities for lands vested; and (13) value of annuities for lands sold but not vested; also the total area. Poor Law valuation, purchase-money, and annuities (a) of lands vested, and (b) of lands sold but not vested; and (c) the area, Poor Law valuation, and purchase-money of lands on 30th November, 1911, in respect of which proceedings for sale have not been instituted under the said Acts.]
§ Mr. BIRRELLI am communicating with the hon. and learned Member on the subject.
§ Mr. FRANCIS MEEHANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that the tenants on the estate of Alicia Conway and Maguire, county Leitrim, petitioned the Congested Districts Board to purchase the estate; and whether, having regard to the fact that the tenants, who are all living on uneconomic holdings, are now deprived of the grazing rights of the adjoining mountain and compelled to pay arrears of rent of old standing, the Congested Districts Board will intervene with a view of bringing about a satisfactory sale of the property?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Congested Districts Board have been approached on behalf of the tenants to purchase this estate. The Board are in correspondence with the vendor's solicitor, and are not at present in a position to make any statement in the matter.