§ MR. KILBRIDE (Kildare, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners received application for reinstatement in September, 1903, September, 1904, and March, 1906, from Mrs. Kavanagh, whose husband was evicted August 16th, 1888, from a farm of 63 acres, the valuation of which was £85 10s. and the rent £172 10s., on the Deane Drake estate, Timolin, county Kildare, the landlord of which resides at Stokestown House, New Ross, county Wexford; and whether, seeing that the evicted farm is on the landlord's hands, never having been relet, he can say what steps have been taken to restore Mrs. Kavanagh and her family to the farm from which her husband was evicted.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BRYCE,) Aberdeen, S.The Estates Commissioners inform me that 243 they have received from Mrs. Kavanagh an application for reinstatement in her former holding on the estate mentioned. The owner has lodged an originating application, under the Act of 1903, for the sale of this estate, including 90 acres at Timolin, apparently the evicted holding, which is in the owner's hands and which he wishes to repurchase under Section 3. The Commissioners recently asked the vendor whether he was prepared to sell any portion of the lands to them for the purpose, if considered desirable, of resale to Mrs. Kavanagh, and he replied that he was not prepared to sell any portion of the lands for that purpose. The Commissioners have not yet ruled on the application, and the inspector will enquire into and report upon the circumstances of the case when he visits the estate in order of priority.
§ MR. KILBRIDEHas the attention of the right hon. Gentleman been directed to the fact that the rent in this case is 100 per cent, over the valuation?