§ MR. GILHOOLY (Cork, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether a number of applications to have fair rents fixed in the Bantry and Castletown Berehaven unions have been postponed one year and a half ago in order that the revising officers of these unions may revise the valuations; and what is the cause of the delay in connection with them.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURIn twenty-five cases from the Union of Castletown-Bere applications to fix fair rents were adjourned in January last, as it appeared that in each of them there was no separate tenement valuation for the lands which were the subject of the fair rent pro- 283 ceedings. In these cases a revision of I the valuation was necessary to enable the Court to comply with the provisions of Section 55 of the Local Government Act of 1898. The necessary revision will be made by the Commissioner of Valuation during the present year. There are no cases of this kind now pending in the Bantry district.