§ Mr. VINCENT KENNEDYasked the Chief Secretary in what counties the Estates Commissioners have failed to acquire lands under the Evicted Tenants Act; and will he say in respect of what area of land proceedings are at present pending in county Cavan?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe only counties in which the Estates Commissioners have not acquired any land under the compulsory provisions of the Evicted Tenants Act are Dublin and Roscommon, in which counties they have acquired up to the 31st March last some 3,500 acres, and 11,000 acres respectively, of untenanted land under the voluntary provisions of the Land Purchase Acts. Proceedings are pending under the compulsory provisions of the Evicted Tenants Act for the acquisition of the former holdings of an evicted tenant comprising some seventeen acres in the county of Cavan.