asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries whether he will state the number of (a) judicial and (b) non-judicial holdings vested each year since 1923, and the number not yet vested in each case.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Vesting of Holdings.
The numbers of holdings coming within the Land Act, 1923, vested since 1923 in each of the following years is:—
Period to 31st December, 1925:— Judicial, 259; Non-judicial, 92. Total, 351.
Year to 31st December, 1926:— Judicial, 273; Non-judicial, 145. Total, 418.
Year to 31st December, 1927:— Judicial, 406; Non-judicial, 267. Total, 673.
Year to 31st December, 1928:— Judicial, 2,661; Non-judicial, 1,347. Total, 4,008.
The number of holdings coming within the Act remaining to be vested is 49,560 judicial and 33,692 non-judicial, and of these 13,352 have been provisionally gazetted. In addition the Land Commission, in the period in question, vested over 33,000 holdings on estates sold under the previous Land Acts.