asked the Minister for Fisheries whether 110 Irish acres on the Baker Estate at Damastown, County Dublin, have been granted to a migrant named Pierce, from Drumleish, County Longford, to the exclusion of local tenants of uneconomic holdings; whether the grantee of the lands in question has now sub-let a considerable portion of them, amounting to approximately one-third thereof, to Edward Counihan, Turvey, Donabate, County Dublin, on the eleven months' system; and whether, in view of this, the Land Commission would reconsider its former decision in the matter, and divide the lands in question among the local applicants.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - DIVISION OF THE DAMASTOWN ESTATE.
Mrs. Pierce surrendered 255 acres in County Longford, which were urgently required for the relief of congestion and received in exchange 172 acres on the Baker Estate, County Dublin. As a temporary measure pending the completion of the transfer from County Longford Mrs. Pierce has taken on grazing stock on part of the lands in County Dublin.