§ MR. DILLON (Mayo, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is now in a position to state with regard to the evicted tenants reinstated by the Estates Commissioners under the Act of 1903: total number of evicted tenants reinstated up to December 31st, 1904; name of each tenant; name of estate from which he had been evicted; area, former rent, and valuation of farm; county and townland where farm is situated; whether tenant was reinstated in farm from which he had been evicted or provided with new farm; full particulars in either case of the terms under which the tenant was reinstated, showing amount of annuity; and whether reinstatement was carried out in connection with or independently of sale of estate from which tenant had been evicted.
(Answered by Mr. Atkinson.) The Commissioners are preparing an interim Report of their proceedings in respect of the period to December 31st, 1904, in accordance with the form prescribed under Section 23 (14) of the Act. This Report will contain very full particulars as to the operations under the Act, including the reinstatement of evicted tenants, but it will not contain information of the detailed character indicated by the hon. Member. 323 Pending the publication of the Report the Government is not prepared to impose on the Commissioners the preparation of supplemental Returns.