§ MR. P. A. MCHUGHTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that several tenants on the Colville Jones Estate, near Grange, county Sligo, who paid each a year's rent in November last and served notice to have their rents revised in the Land Courts, are now being proceeded against, some for the hanging gale and some for arrears which have been running on for ten or fifteen years; and whether, in view of the poverty of these tenants, and of the fact that they occupy small patches of land in a congested area, and of the distress prevailing on this estate at the present time, he can take steps to prevent the execution of decrees that may be obtained against tenants who have paid a year's rent within the past twelve months.
§ MR. ATKINSONI have no information on this subject. The matter is not one in which the Executive could interfere.