§ Mr. BOLANDasked the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland), whether he is aware that the landlord of the Winn estate, Glenbeigh, has now sold to a firm of timber merchants part of the woods which were reserved to him when the estate was sold to the tenants; whether he is aware that the wood in question is the chief feature in the landscape, and that its wholesale destruction will rob one of the most attractive districts of Kerry of its charm; whether, if his Department cannot now intervene so as to prevent the destruction of the wood, steps will be taken to compel the replanting of the wood; and whether he will co-operate with the Congested Districts Board, through whom the estate was originally sold?
§ Mr. RUSSELLThe Department have been informed that the wood referred to has been sold to timber merchants. Owing to the fact that it was reserved from the sale under the Lands Acts, it does not come within the provisions of Section 32 of the Act of 1909, and the Department have therefore no power to restrain felling.