§ MR. O'DONNELLasked, Whether the approaching evictions of six hundred tenant families in the county Donegal, announced at the London Mansion House on Wednesday last, is to be undertaken with the co-operation of Her Majesty's Government; whether the whole or almost the whole of the county of Donegal was scheduled as "distressed" in the Compensation for Disturbance Bill brought in by Her Majesty's Government in the year 1880; whether the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland will inform the House if he has taken any steps to ascertain that these six hundred families are not being evicted for arrears of rack-rents levied upon, and confiscatory of, the tenants own improvements; and whether he will inform the House what steps, if any, the Government is taking to provide necessary relief and shelter for so large a population, comprising some three thousand women and children, on being evicted from their homes?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON), in reply, said, he must ask the hon. Member to postpone the Question, as he had not all the facts which were necessary to a complete reply.