§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)On behalf of the hon. Member for Waterford, I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Government or the Lord-Lieutenant
† See (4) Debates, cxlii., 562.463 has issued any regulations, directions, or instructions, in correspondence or otherwise, to the Estates Commissioners, causing an alteration in any way of their policy or administration of the Land Act of 1903 in respect to evicted tenants, or the sales of estates, or any other matter connected with their administration of the Act; and, if so, whether these regulations, directions, or instructions will be laid upon the Table of the House, in accordance with the pledge given by the right hon. Member for Dover, on behalf of the Government, on July 1st, 1903.
§ MR. WALTER LONGIt was stated by my right hon. friend the Member for Dover on February 20th † that no regulations of the character mentioned in Section 23, Sub-section 8, of the Act had been made, but that communications of a Departmental and confidential nature had passed between him and the Commissioners. Having regard to the experience that has been obtained of the working of the Act, I am now considering whether the time has not arrived for formulating such regulations as are contemplated by Section 23 (8) and publishing them in the manner that may be deemed most satisfactory and convenient.