§ MR. VILLIERS STUARTasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he will lay upon the Table a Return of the number of cases in which the Commissioners under the Land Act have ordered the building or improvement of labourers cottages with the addition of garden allotments; in how many cases their orders have been carried out; and, whether he will inform the House what penalty the Commissioners are empowered to inflict in case of non-compliance with their orders?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER,in reply, said, that the House had ordered a Return of the provision made for labourers on the 28th of January last, and that Return would give all the information which could be supplied up to that date. A further Return would be prepared. The Commissioners informed him that they had no means of knowing what provision for labourers had been made. The penalties for non-compliance with the orders of the Commissioners were of the ordinary kind—namely, attachment of the person or sequestration of goods.
§ MR. HEALYMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman, If it is not a fact that there is no machinery provided by the Land Act to compel farmers to comply with the order of the Court regarding cottages and garden allotments?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERwas understood to assent to the statement.