§ Mr. SCANLANasked the Chief Secretary whether the Congested Districts Board have received memorials from tenants and others asking the Board to purchase the lands known as the Seven Cartrons, Dunfore, and Oxfield, part of the Gore Booth estate, county Sligo; whether it has been brought to the knowledge of the Board that all the above are lands from which the tenants were formerly evicted, and that the holdings of the petitioning tenants are all uneconomic and that the neighbourhood is poor and congested; and whether the Board have entered into negotiations, and when they will be able to complete the purchase and distribution of these lands?
§ Mr. BIRRELLMemorials have been received from the tenants of the lands referred to in the question, and the Congested Districts Board are making enquiries in relation to the Gore-Booth Estate. At the present stage it is not desirable to make any further statement in the matter.