§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the diagram of Irish land purchase, of which notice appears on the Order Paper, will be granted—[Diagram indicating up to the 31st day of March, 1917, by counties and provinces (a) the area of land sold, and (b) the estimated area of lands in respect of which proceedings had been instituted and were pending for sale under the Irish Land Purchase Acts; also the estimated area of lands in respect of which proceedings for sale had not been instituted on that date under the said Acts (in continuation of Command Paper. No. 4,412, of 1908).]
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§ Mr. DUKEThe present time is not opportune for publishing a revision of the Return as to land purchase presented to Parliament in 1913 (Cd. 6,130). The staff of the Estates Commissioners is depleted by the absence of men on war service, and exceptional economies in printing and stationery are being enforced.