§ MR. T. SMYTH (Leitrim, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware of the fact that an evicted tenant named M. A. Kiernan, residing at Aughakiltubrid, Cloone, county Leitrim, on the Madden estate, which has been sold recently to the tenants at twenty-four-and-a-half years' purchase, was refused the right to purchase by the landlord, unless the amount of the arrears of rent due was added to the purchase money; and if he will call the attention of the Estates Commissioners to this case, so that the evicted tenant may get the same terms as the other tenants who have purchased their holdings.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that the former holding of Mary A. Kiernan is included in the lands for the sale of which the owner has lodged an originating application, but no purchase agreement in respect thereof has been lodged. Mrs. Kiernan's application for reinstatement will be inquired into by the Commissioners when they are dealing with the estate.