§ MR. T. W. RUSSELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if it will be possible, before the Second Reading of the Evicted Tenants (Ireland) Arbitration Bill, to state the amount expended for outdoor relief to evicted tenants in those unions in which the 17 estates investigated by the Mathew Commission are situate?
MR. J. MORLEYAt page 22 of the Report of the Evicted Tenants Commission will be found a Return containing, amongst other things, a statement of the amount of outdoor relief granted to evicted tenants on the 17 estates referred to since 1879. If the hon. Gentleman so desires, this information can be brought down to the present date, but it would be necessary to obtain it from the clerks of the Unions, and it would take a week or 10 days to procure the figures.