CAPTAIN CRAIGI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, as would appear from the special Report of the Estates Commissioners, 8,401 applications for reinstatement have been received from evicted tenants, and of those 5,368 have been ruled out upon various grounds; if so, whether in the case of these 5,368 disappointed applicants any intimation of the decision of the Estates Commissioners in each case has been communicated to them; and, if not, will such intimation, with the grounds of the decision, be communicated prior to the Second Reading of the Bill, if that stage is ever reached.
§ MR. BIRRELLIf the hon. and gallant Member will refer to the 20th paragraph of the Estates Commissioners' Special 706 Report on Evicted Tenants he will find that the number of applications rejected by the Commissioners is 2,945, and not 5,368 as stated in the Question. In cases in which the Commissioners have rejected the 'applications, it has been their practice to inform the applicant of the fact.