§ Mr. FARRELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will state the number of estates on the all-cash register 3206W yet remaining to be completed in county Longford; whether the delay arises from want of money to pay off the arrears or is due to legal difficulties which have arisen; and will he urge the Estates Commissioners as soon as the War is over to urge forward the completion of these sales?
§ Mr. SHORTTEstates are entered on the priority registers of pending sales under the Land Purchase Acts according to their priority dates as determined under the Regulations, and not by counties. It appears that of the estates on the all-cash registers of direct sales and sales to the Estates Commissioners twenty-eight are situated in county Longford. The purchase money of estates on these registers are advanced as rapidly as practicable by the Estates Commissioners, according to their priorities on these registers and in so far as the moneys available will permit, and on compliance with the Commissioners' requisitions as to title, etc.
§ Mr. FARRELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he is aware that the tenants on the Reynolds estate, Bally-shin, county Longford, have been deprived of their turbary, although purchased out under the Land Acts; and, as the residential portion of this estate in fee is now on the market, including this turbary, if he will request the Estates Commissioners to come in and purchase the bog for division amongst the tenants?
§ Mr. SHORTTHoldings vested in purchasing tenants under the Land Purchase Acts continue to have appurtenant thereto and to be subject, as the case may be, to any previously existing easements, rights, and appurtenances. The lands referred to in the second part of the question are not the subject of proceedings for sale before the Estates Commissioners under the Land Purchase Acts, but it is open to the owner to institute such proceedings.
§ Mr. FARRELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will state the total number of estates sold, either direct of through the Estates Commission or Land Commission, to the tenants in county Longford under the Land Purchase Acts, 1885 to 1909; what is the total default of loss to the State by default during that time; and whether, in the case of estates not yet vested, he can hold out a hope that these cases will soon be dealt with?
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§ Mr. SHORTTAdvances have been made under the Land Purchase Acts, 1885–1909, in respect of 6,147 holdings situate on 260 estates in county Longford. Of the purchase annuities payable in respect of advances made in this county only £2 3s. 3d. has, up to this, been deemed uncollectable, the other arrears outstanding being in daily process of recovery. The pending sales will be dealt with as rapidly as practicable in their order of priority on the register of sales, and in so far as the funds available for land purchase permit.