HC Deb 23 May 1906 vol 157 c1285
MR. BOLAND

I 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. BRYCE

The 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. BOLAND

A 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. BRYCE

I do not think so.

MR. FLAVIN

How came such a statement to be made?

MR. BRYCE

It was hoped at the time that the pending negotiations would have a successful issue.