§ MR. KENDAL O'BRIEN (Tipperary, Mid.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord - Lieutenant of Ireland whether, with a view to hastening and facilitating the sale of the Dundrum Estate of the Earl de Montalt, in county Tipperary, he will take steps to have the Chief Land Commission sit immediately in the town of Tipperary, or other convenient centre, to hear appeals from the Sub-Commission Court for the purpose of fixing fair rents, the applications for which in the estate referred to, as well as in others, have been in Court for nearly seven years.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThirty-two fair rent appeals are pending from this estate. Twenty-seven of these appeared on the preliminary list already issued for hearing at Waterford, but the Tipperary cases were removed from the final list owing to complaints received from several parties as to the place of hearing. It has not been yet found possible to arrange for a sitting to dispose of the Tipperary cases. None of the appeals from this district are pending for seven years; the longest outstanding notices of appeal were lodged in July, 1900.