§ MR. FLAVINI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that all the evicted 499 tenants on the Ormathwaite property, situate near Listowel, have been reinstated with the exception of Thomas Walsh, although he has made the same offer for reinstatement as the others; and, on what grounds has his application for reinstatement been refused?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThree of the holdings from which the former tenants were evicted on this property, still remain unoccupied. I have no means of knowing on what grounds the landlord acted in refusing the application of Walsh for reinstatement.
§ MR. FLAVINasked whether the right hon. Gentleman was aware that this man was the only exception on the whole property, that he had made an application to be reinstated and that no ground had been given for the refusal to reinstate him?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURsaid that if no ground for the refusal to reinstate the man had been given he did not see how he could be expected to give one.
§ MR. FLAVINasked why the extra police were kept on the property at the cost of the ratepayers?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURsaid he supposed that the extra police were kept on the property in the interests of peace. He had no further information to give on the subject.
§ MR. FLAVINsaid that he should call further attention to the matter.