§ MR. MCVEIGH (Donegal, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that when Patrick Hannigan, of Cappry, Stranorlar, East Donegal, was evicted from his farm in 1899, by the landlady, Alice A. Hayes, that she, by her agents, in 1904, tumbled down his dwelling house and office houses, and burned his furniture therein; and that he is now reinstated to facilitate the sale of the estate under the Land Purchase Act of 1903; and will he advise the Estates Commissioners to refuse to sanction the sale of the estate unless the evicted tenant is compensated for the loss of his houses and furniture.
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BRYCE, Aberdeen, S.)The Estates Commissioners have no information as to the matters of fact alleged in the first part of the Question. The owner has given his consent to an inspection of the holding formerly occupied by Hannigan, and this will be carried out in due course by the inspector for the district, and the claims of the evicted tenant reported on.