HC Deb 20 July 1882 vol 272 cc1077-8
MR. TOTTENHAM

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If it is the fact that, out of 287 cases in which judicial rents were fixed in the Union of Armagh, at the recent sitting of the Sub-Commission, appeals have been lodged in 167, or 70 per cent of the whole; whether the per centage of appeals from the decisions of Messrs. Foley, Meek, and Davidson exceeds that from any of the other Sub-Commissions; and, whether, in view of the proceedings of this Sub-Commission, he will make any representation on the subject to the Chief Commissioners?

MR. TREVELYAN

Sir, the number of appeals lodged and the percentage of the appeals is stated with substantial accuracy by the hon. Member in his Question. The percentage of appeals from this Sub-Commission is higher than the percentage of any other Sub-Commission. The result of these appeals has not in any case been decided, so that it yet remains to be seen how far they were made on sufficient grounds. That must also be my answer to the last part of the Question.

MR. HEALY

inquired whether, in view of those repeated attacks in the form of Questions upon the Sub-Commissioners, and also in view of the fact that Notice of a Motion on the subject had been given in "another place," the Government would afford any opportunity for discussing the general character of those attacks?

[No reply.]