§ MR. CLANCY (Dublin Co., N.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, though the Land Commissioners have at last announced that a Sub-Commission will sit again in Dublin County in September, several Dublin cases, in which the originating notices were served 12 months ago, are not listed for hearing on that occasion; whether he is aware that the landlords in some of those cases are attempting, by threat of legal proceedings, to exact the old rents without 331 abatement; and, whether, under these circumstances, the Government will be prepared to suggest to the Land Commission the advisability of adding to the number of the Land Courts in Dublin County, or otherwise hastening the disposal of the arrears of business referred to, the delay in dealing with which has already occasioned so much hardship?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN) (Dublin University)(who replied) said: The Land Commissioners state that the list of cases for the next sitting of a Sub-Commission in the County Dublin has not yet been published. It will include all cases received at their office up to and including September 28 last. The Commissioners intend to avail themselves of the services of the new Assistant Commissioners in those districts where the claims appear to them to be most pressing.
§ MR. CLANCYinquired, if the hon. and learned Gentleman had found it was a fact, as he (Mr. Clancy) stated, that notices served a year ago were precluded, would he adopt the suggestion contained in the last paragraph of the Question?
§ MR. MADDENsaid, a revision of the Sub-Commissioners rested with the Land Commission.