§ Mr. MOOREasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if it is intended that the compulsory powers conferred both on the Congested Districts Board and on the Estates Commissioners in the pending Bill dealing with Irish land should apply in the case of land bought out by the occupying owners under the Land Purchase Acts; and, if not so intended, why are not the same specifically excepted, as in section 1 of the Evicted Tenants (Ireland) Act, 1907?
§ Mr. BIRRELLIt is not intended that the compulsory powers conferred by the Bill should extend to such cases. Those powers can only be exercised on the failure of negotiations to purchase under the Land Purchase Acts, and lands for the purchase of which advances have already been made cannot be the subject of such negotiations. An exception was necessary in section 1 889W of the Evicted Tenants Act, as that section applies to any land which it may be deemed expedient to acquire for the purposes of the Act.