§ MR. TULLYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state on how many estates in the county Leitrim future tenants have been created since the Land Act of 1881, and the number of them; and whether he would be prepared to receive a deputation from these future tenants with a view to having their rights safeguarded under any future land purchase legislation.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe number of notices served under Section 7 of the Act of 1887, not the Act of 1881, to the present date was 2,761. The number of actual evictions in the same period was 410. The effect of a notice being to determine the tenancy, the tenant must redeem before he can apply to have a fair rent fixed. Such redemptions are, it is believed, frequent, but there are no official records showing their number. I do not perceive the connection between Future Tenancies and Land Purchase, since, in that respect, a future tenant stands in the same position as a present tenant. If the hon. Member will indicate the points which the deputation wishes to submit, I will consider his request.