MR. C. MACVEIGH (Donegal, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the case of Robert Cooke, son of the late David Cooke, who was evicted from his farm on the estate of Sir Samuel Hayes, near Convoy, county Donegal, over twenty years ago, and to the fact that his son, Robert Cooke, has been reinstated by the Commissioners two years ago, but without means to start farming with; and whether he will direct the Estates Commissioners to grant him a sum of money to crop and stock his farm now lying waste.
§ (Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that Robert Cooke has signed an agreement for the purchase of a parcel of land comprising nineteen acres on the estate referred to, but the advance in the case has not yet been sanctioned. The Commissioners are prepared to consider any application which he may make for an advance or grant with which to stock his farm.