HC Deb 30 May 1905 vol 147 cc225-6
MR. J. P. FARRELL

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state who ate the † See (4) Debates, cxlvi., 1533. trustees of the bog on the Granard (counties Longford and Leitrim) Estate; how often they meet, and whether they have any power to regulate complaints made by persons aggrieved by reason of deprivation of turbary or the like; whether he is aware that in 1897 Thomas Whitney, of Lettergullion, purchased his holding subject to a right of turbary on Derawley Bog No. 2, for which the vesting order provides; that, on application of the tenant for his turbary rights, the bailiff told him he had no turbary for him, and that on application to the Land Commission a reply was received that the case was under consideration; and, if so, will he direct the Estates Commissioners to take this man's case into immediate consideration with a view to his getting the rights to which he is by vesting order entitled.

(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The vesting order in Whitney's case vested with the holding certain turbary rights n Derawley Bog, but the Land Commission were not parties to the deed appointing the trusties and creating the trust of the bog, and they have no information as to who the present trustees are or as to how they discharge their trust. The Estates Commissioners have no power to intervene in the manner suggested.