HC Deb 21 February 1901 vol 89 cc699-700
MR. O'DOHERTY

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state the number of appeals from the Sub-Commission Court at present pending from the Innishowen Union of the county of Donegal; and whether, as some of these appeals are pending for the past three or four years, he can say when the tenants concerned may expect the Appeal Court to dispose of the cases.

MR. WYNDHAM

Appeals are pending in fifty-two cases from the Innishowen Union. A large number of these cases will appear on the next List of Appeals for hearing at Londonderry, but no arrangements have yet been made by the Commissioners for the next sitting at that place.

MR. O'DOHERTY

Cannot the right hon. Gentleman make arrangements for hearing these appeals in the Union, seeing that Londonderry is forty miles distant?

MR. WYNDHAM

I will lay the suggestion before the Land Commission, but, as the hon. Member knows, there are a large number of appeals outstanding.