§ MR. DOLAN (Leitrim, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieu- tenant of Ireland why the Estates Commissioners are unable to take any action in the case of Philip Sweeney, an evicted tenant on the estate of Owen Wynne, county Leitrim.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have made inquiries into the case of Philip Sweeney, who has applied for reinstatement in the holding formerly occupied by him and now occupied by another tenant. The Commissioners have, in the exercise of 385 their discretion, decided that, having regard to the circumstances and to No. VI. of the Lord-Lieutenant's Regulations of the 13th February, 1906, the case is not one in which they should take any action.