§ MR. MURPHY (Kerry, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the inspector from the Estates Commissioners notified Mrs. Catherine O'Connor, who claims to be an evicted tenant on the Morrogh Bernard Estate, county Kerry, that he would inspect her evicted farm on the 5th April, 1906, and that on that date the inspector refused to inquire into the case on the grounds that he was prevented by the estate agent from doing so; and whether the Estates Commissioners will refuse to sanction a sale of any portion of this estate until the claims of all the evicted tenants on it are fully and satisfactorily dealt with.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that it is the fact that the agent of the estate in question objected to the inspection of the holdings of evicted tenants who had not signed agreements for purchase. The Commissioners, however, intend to have further inquiries made into the cases of these evicted tenants.