Mr. ROCHEasked whether the tenants on the estate of Mrs. Fanny Pyne, Castle-town, Roche, county Cork, have signed agreements to purchase their holdings; if these were lodged with the Estates Commissioners in October, 1908; and if he can state what steps, if any, do the Estates Commissioners propose to take in the matter of acquiring the remainder of the estate, consisting of some 600 acres, for the purpose of providing for evicted tenants an enlargement of uneconomic holdings?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that agreements for the purchase by the tenants of their holdings on this estate were lodged in October, 1908. When the estate is being inspected in order of priority the matter referred to in the question will be inquired into.