HC Deb 06 March 1905 vol 142 cc413-4
MR. GILHOOLY (Cork County, W.)

I beg to ask Mr. Attorney-General for † See (4) Debates, cxxxi., 952. Ireland whether his attention has been called to a proposed sitting of the Sub-Land Commission at Bantry on March 7th; whether he is aware that on the list for hearing there are forty-seven cases from the Castletown Berehaven district and only seven from the Bantry district; whether, seeing that in many cases the holdings are forty miles from Bantry, and that the greater number of the holdings are small and the occupiers poor, and that the holding of the Land Court in Bantry for tenants from Castletown Berehaven is calculated to prevent small occupiers from serving originating notices to fix a fair rent, he will direct the Sub-Commission to have a sitting at Berehaven.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON,) Londonderry, N.

I regret I am not in a position to reply to this Question at the present moment. I have referred it to the Land Commissioners and expect to receive their further observations in the matter this afternoon, when I will communicate with the hon. Member.