§ MR. KENNYasked Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland, If the attention of the Irish Land Commission has been directed to the case of Thomas Malony, a tenant on the property of Lord In-chiquin, who was evioted for non-payment of rent; if he offered the landlord three-fourths of the amount due, which was refused and the tenant dispossessed; if within the period allowed for redemption the tenant sold his interest for an 646 amount which would enable him to pay the landlord in full, and leave a considerable balance, but the landlord refused to accept the purchaser as tenant; whether Lord Inchiquin's agent arranged with the tenant to have the value of the land fixed by the Court in order that the tenant might receive the amount to which he would be entitled after deducting the sum due for rent, but that the value has not yet been fixed; if, in addition to that, the growing crops of the tenant were seized upon and appropriated by Lord Inehiquin, who refuses to account for their value; and, if the tenant is entitled to any redress under "The Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881," seeing that he has been dispossessed from his holding and his property nearly three times in excess of his liability taken possession of by the landlord?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. WALKER),in reply, said, the Government had no means of obtaining the necessary information on the subject.
§ MR. KENNYWhat I want to know is, if the landlord has the right to refuse to have a value put on a farm in order to ascertain the amount of money which is due to the tenant over and above the claim to arrears of rent due?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. WALKER)That is an abstract question, and impossible for me to answer on an ex parte statement.