§ MR. DALY (Monaghan, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 'whether he is aware that a Mr. Garvey has been made a Sub-Land Commissioner to fix fair rents in Ireland; whether he is a son of Mr. Toler Garvey, land agent in Ireland, who gave evidence before the Morley Commission on behalf of the landlords, and was trained by Mr. Barnes, a landlord valuer; whether any Sub-Commissioners have been appointed from among the tenant farmer class in Ireland recently; and, if so, can he give their names; and whether he is able to state in what district Mr. Garvey is at present fixing rents?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURMr. Garvey has been appointed a Supplemental Lay Assistant Commissioner to take the place of any one of the regular Assistant Commissioners who may be prevented by reason of illness, or other sufficient cause, from discharging the dunes of the office. So far, however, it has not been found necessary to call upon Mr. Garvey to perform the duties of an Assistant Commissioner. I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of the statements in the second paragraph. With regard to the third paragraph, the following gentlemen have been appointed Assistant Commissioners within the past 12 months, all of whom have had a practical knowledge of land, namely, Messrs. Bellingham, Dickey, Adamson, Hammond, Clarke, and Garvey. Of these, I believe I am right in stating that two farmed land both as owners and as tenants, that two farmed 'and as 279 tenants, that one was a land agent, and that the sixth was a civil engineer with a knowledge of land valuation.