§ MR. NOLAN (Louth, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that in January last the Land Commission issued a list of fair rent applications for the county of Louth in which seventy-nine of the holdings were situated in the Ardee Union, that these cases were heard in Dundalk or in Drogheda instead of in Ardee, and that this arrangement caused inconvenience and expense to the parties concerned, and whether in future cases connected with the Ardee Union will be listed for hearing in the town of Ardee as in former years.
§ MR. WYNDHAMIn fixing the sittings in question, the matter was discussed at Drogheda between the chairman of the sub-commission and the solicitors acting for the majority of the tenants. It was then decided that it 850 would be most convenient for the greater number of those concerned that the cases should be heard in Drogheda and Dundalk. No objection was made to this course, and no application was made to hear any of the cases at Ardee. I cannot give any undertaking such as suggested at the end of the question; but I will bring the matter under the notice of the Land Commission