§ MR. O'DONNELLasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to the fact that at the late sitting of the Land Court appointed to be held this month at Dungarvan for the hearing of cases in the Union of Dungarvan, 166 cases were listed for hearing; whether he is aware that in the cases of many of the applicants for the fixing of a fair rent their applications have been already before the court for periods of eighteen months and more; whether it is true that the court was postponed to July without hearing cases at Dungarvan; whether it is true that at the present rate of the disposal of cases at Dungarvan more than a quarter of a century will be required to dispose of the cases already on the list; and, whether arrangements can be made by which courts can be held more frequently and for longer periods until the cases in arrear have been disposed of?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, 166 cases were listed for hearing at Dungarvan on the 9th of April. I have not been informed whether any of them had been before the Court for 18 months; but I am aware that nearly all of them had been adjourned from the previous sitting. The April sitting at Dungarvan only terminated on Monday last; and the Land Commissioners, when reporting to me yesterday, had not received the Returns necessary to enable them to say what amount of business was disposed of. They have furnished me with a conjecture on the subject; but, as it is only a conjecture, I do not wish to repeat it. A Sub-Commission will sit again at Dungarvan on the 30th of July.