§ MR. BOLANDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that not a single evicted tenant has been reinstated on the Warden estate, at Sneem; and can he state by whom the information was supplied that twenty-five evicted tenants had been reinstated.
MR. BRYCEThe Estates Commissioners inform me that originally the landlord agreed to sell some 2,000 acres to twenty-five evicted tenants, and purchase-agreements in these cases were signed and lodged. Subsequently the landlord agreed to sell the whole of his estate to the Commissioners and proceedings were initiated accordingly, the former proceedings being dropped and these substituted. The new proceedings have been delayed by difficult legal questions which have now been decided, and the matter is being expedited as much as possible. The evicted tenants have not yet been actually placed in possession, pending sanction of the advances.
§ MR. BOLANDA week or two ago we were told that twenty-five tenants had be reinstated. From whom was that information received? Was it the police sergeant?
§ MR. FLAVINHow came such a statement to be made?