§ MR. CAREW (Kildare, N.)I beg to ask the Solicitor General for Ireland whether he can give the number of fair rent applications still remaining undis- 1580 posed of in the County of Kildare; whether he is aware that owing to the delay in hearing these applications, and to the enforcement of the payment of the old rents pending the fixing of the fair rents, a number of tenants who wore unable to pay the old rents have been obliged to enter into judicial agreements on the terms proposed by the landlords; and, whether he will state when the Sub-Commission will next sit at Naas or Athy?
§ MR. MADDENThe Land Commissioners report that originating notices have been received in 557 cases in the County of Kildare which have not been listed for hearing or disposal. In only three of these cases have judicial agreements been lodged since the 1st of January last. By the fifth section of the Act of 1887 it is provided that, when the Court fixes a judicial rent for a holding, the rent so fixed shall be the rent payable by the tenant as from the gale-day next after the application, and also makes provision for an account between the parties to settle the difference between the payments actually made and the judicial rent. A date has not yet been fixed for the sitting of a Sub-Commission to hear cases arising out of the Union of Naas; but a sitting will be held for the Union of Athy early in August.