§ Mr. O'SHAUGHNESSYasked the Chief Secretary if he can say whether the Estates Commissioners received a memorial from the small holders and labourers of Cappananty and Cappanahane district, in the county of Limerick, asking to have the untenanted lands there purchased under the Irish Land Purchase Acts, with the view to their distribution, and to the relief of congestion in the district; and whether, as the efforts of the Commissioners have failed to acquire those lands voluntarily, they will now take steps to put the compulsory provisions of the Irish Land Act, 1909, into operation with regard to them?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners have received the memorial referred to. They do not propose to institute proceedings for the compulsory acquisition of these lands under the Irish Land Act, 1909.