§ MR. CREANOn behalf of the hon. Member for Mid Cork, I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have received an application for reinstatement from John Barry, of 1, Ballinlough Road, Cork, who claims to have been evicted from a farm at Lisevine, in the parish of Grenagh, county Cork; was the claim of Mr. Barry referred to Mr. Macoun, estates inspector, for inquiry and report; did Mr. Macoun wait upon the planter, a man named Connell, and did the latter offer to give up the holding if he were properly compensated or provided with another farm elsewhere; and, 882 having regard to all the circumstances of this case, will he state what action the Estates Commissioners propose to take in the matter.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that the application in question was investigated by their inspector, who interviewed both the applicant and the present occupier of the holding. The latter intimated that he had no intention of giving up the farm. The Commissioners have therefore been unable to effect Barry's reinstatement, but will reconsider the question of providing him with another holding if opportunity should offer.