§ MR. SEXTONasked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, in the absence of the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Government propose to take any legislation or other action with respect to the Arrears Clause of the Land Act, in view of the signally inoperative character of the Clause, as shown by the Parliamentary Paper distributed this week to honourable Members, which discloses the fact that only twenty-one applications have been made under the Clause, and only eighteen, representing a total sum of £500, have been granted?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)asked that the Question might be postponed until the Chief Secretary was in his place.