§ MR. BYRNE (Wicklow, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord. Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he is aware that numerous applications to have fair rents fixed in the Baltinglass District were lodged with the Land Commission 1742 so long ago as September last year, and have not yet been heard or even listed for hearing; and, if so, whether he will draw the attention of the Land Commission to the extreme desirability of having listed and heard, at the next Land Sessions for Baltinglass, all cases in which applications have been lodged for at least a period of three months and upwards?
THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN)(who replied) said (Dublin University)The Land Commissioners report that the number of cases now outstanding in the County Carlow portion of Baltinglass Union is 58; in the County Wicklow portion 273; and in the County Kildare portion 65. A Sub-Commission will sit in Baltinglass on January 22; the list will contain 42 cases from County Wicklow and 41 from the County Carlow. All applications received up to, and including, September 27, 1887, are listed for Wicklow; and all applications received up to, and including, November 7, 1887, are listed for Carlow. No date has been fixed for that portion of the union in County Kildare. It would not be practicable to adopt the course suggested in the concluding portion of the Question, having regard to the claims of other unions.