HC Deb 05 August 1897 vol 52 c399
MR. MACALEESE

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether it is intended to afford all reasonable facilities to tenant farmers and the land valuers acting on their behalf to give evidence before the Land Acts Inquiry Commission as to the various matters complained of by them in the procedure, practice, and methods of valuation followed by the Land Commission and Civil Bill Courts in Ireland under the Land Acts in fixing fair rents, &c, more especially in appeal cases; and whether it is intended that the Commission will sit in the various districts throughout the country at least where appeals from the Sub-Commissioners have been heard; and when it is proposed that the sittings shall commence?

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

As I have already stated in answer to a somewhat similar question addressed to me by the hon. Member for Kilkenny, the procedure of the Royal Commission, as well as the time and place of their sittings, will be settled by the Commissioners themselves, to whom I will refer this Question of the hon. Member.