§ Mr. JOYCEasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Land Commissioners are in negotiation for the purchase of the Cagney and Harold estate, at Park, Pennywell, Limerick; whether James Hynes and Bridget Hynes have signed purchase agreements for the purchase of plots 35 and 36, respectively, as separate purchasers, and on the understanding that their holdings will be completely separated; whether facilities for separate entrance to the respective plots can be secured by obtaining possession of an adjacent ruined house hitherto used by the Hynes's, and whether the Commissioners will exercise their powers under 1394W the Land Act by obtaining such possession and creating such facilities when sanctioning the purchase of the estate; whether there are other plots on the same estate included in the proposed sale and purchase thereof, some of which were formerly part of the holding of the Hynes family, and which were surrendered owing to excessive rents; whether such plots are now necessary to create economic holdings, together with the aforesaid plots 35 and 36; and whether the Estates Commissioners will take all these circumstances into account when the said estate is being divided?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners are unable to identify this estate as pending for sale before them under the Land Purchase Acts.