§ MR. O'HANLONI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland, with reference to the 298 tenants from the 857 Union of Cavan, whose applications to fix fair rents were served in 1887, and whose rents have not yet been fixed, whether he is aware that these tenants, though entitled to the benefit of the reduced rents, on the rents running from May, 1887, have been since then and are still liable to payment of the old rents; whether this liability is owing to the delay of the Land Commission; on what; date these applications will be heard; and whether, pending the hearing, the Government will prevent the landlords from collecting the old rents, as the tenants are in nowise responsible for the delay?
§ * MR. MADDENPending the fixing of a judicial rent the tenant is liable for the existing rent. Not any over-payments made by him will be ultimately returned. There has been no unnecessary delay on the part of the Land Commission in hearing applications to fix fair rents, and sub-Commissioners have been sitting.