§ MR. LUNDONTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the tenants on the Dicken property of Basket Hill and Croughhiveera, Ballybrood, county Limerick, have arranged with their landlord for the purchase of their farms; and will the Estates Commissioners be instructed to approach the agent, Mr. Whyte, of Limerick, with the view of obtaining the evicted land of his father for Patrick O'Brien, Cloughadareen, Pallasgrean, county Limerick, which, from the time of his eviction, has always been worked as an untenanted farm.
§ (Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have received applications from three evicted tenants for reinstatement on the estate referred to. In one case the evicted tenant has been restored, and in the other two (including the case of Patrick O'Brien) the applications have been rejected by reason of the fact that the evictions took place more than twenty-five years before the passing of the Act of 1903.