§ MR. FLAVINI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that a very large number of applications have been made in Kerry to have fair rents fixed; and whether he can say when the Sub-Commissioners sat last, and about what time will the next sittings take place?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThere are at present 286 applications to fix fair rent from the County Kerry awaiting disposal. A Sub-Commission was continuously at work in that county from September 1896, to the end of January. No date has at present been fixed for the next sitting of a Sub-Commission in the county.