§ Mr. GUINEYasked the Chief Secretary if he will state what is the cause of the delay in the payment of the amount mentioned in the arbitrator's award as compensation to John Sullivan, Meenagloherane, Millstreet rural district, for a plot of land acquired under the Labourers Acts?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Land Commission have written to the clerk and to the solicitor to the Millstreet District Council pressing for the lodgment without further delay of the compensation payable in respect of a labourer's plot acquired by the council on the lands of Meenagloherane, estate of Irish Land Commission (formerly that of G. C. Clery), allotted as a parcel to John O'Sullivan. The council asked permission to pay the compensation awarded direct to O'Sullivan, but were informed by the Estates Commissioners that they could not see their way to consent to this, and the Commissioners pointed out that O'Sullivan would get the benefit of the entire compensation when received by the Land Commission in a corresponding reduction of the purchase-money to be paid by him.