Can the Minister tell the House if the Land Commission can state what estates will be divided this year? They were not able to tell me when I had a parliamentary question down earlier in the year.

That is a separate question and this is a very general question.

For obvious reasons I cannot give the Deputy the exact amount but I would like to inform the House that there is an accelerated plan in operation at the moment to get a lot of land off hands. It is quite possible that there will be a very small amount on hands at the end of this year. That also comes up in a later question.

The standard reply we are getting here is that an estate will be divided when the Department look——

I understand that comes up on another question.

The Minister has not answered my question about the number of Land Commission inspectors to divide the land. We are being told that because of the assessment of land for land tax there will be a delay in the division of land and, arising from that, how can the Minister say that we are accelerating the division of land?

That matter will be dealt with in another question. The position is that 91 inspectors have been seconded to the Department of Finance.

If the matter is to come up on a later question there is no point in debating it now. This amounts to a gross waste of time.