MR. O'BRIENasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he is aware that small farmers in the neighbourhood of Moville, county Done-gal, have been obliged to travel distances of from fifteen to twenty miles to attend sittings of the Land Court; whether he is aware that the expenses of applicants and their witnesses in such cases frequently absorb the value of the reductions of rent obtained on small holdings; whether numbers of tenants have in consequence been deterred from prosecuting their claims under the Land Act; and, whether arrangements can be made in future by which sittings shall be held at Moville?
§ MR. TREVELYAN, in reply, said, that the Land Commission, in arranging the Sub-Commissions, fixed some central place in a county, and application might then, on the first day of the sitting, be made to the Sub-Commissioners to adjourn to another place for the hearing of certain applications. The sittings for the County Donegal were fixed for Carndonagh and another town, and it rested with the Sub-Commissioners to say whether they would adjourn to Moville. He was not aware 1176 that any tenants were deterred from prosecuting their cases because sittings were not held at Moville.
§ MR. TREVELYANFrom the information given by the Solicitor General for Ireland I am bound to admit that it is so.