§ MR. BOLANDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the rent of Patrick Sullivan, residing at Derryleigh, on the Warden estate, Sneem, county Kerry, was fixed by the sub-commission in 1882 at £21 15s., the previous rent having been £23; that in 1898 the second term rent was fixed by the sub-commission at £19 14s.; and that recently the valuators, acting for the head commission, have raised the rent to £22 15s., an increase of £1 over the rent originally fixed in 1882; is he aware that one of the valuators was one of the sub-commissioners in 1882, and has now, after a lapse of nineteen years, in spite of the fall in agricultural prices and the rise in the price of labour, appraised the rent at £1 in excess of his previous valuation; and will he say whether he proposes to take steps in this case.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. WYNDHAM,) DoverAn appeal is pending in the case referred to, and this being so, I am precluded from making any statement on it.