§ MR. THOMAS O'DONNELL (Kerry, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that at the recent sitting of the Land Commission in Tralee, a number of tenants from the Dingle district were asked to come over thirty miles to Tralee, at inconvenience and expense, and at the end of the sitting of two days had to go home without having their cases heard; whether he is aware that 300 tenants in the Dingle district have served notices to have fair rents fixed; and whether, seeing that this is a congested and highly rented district, and that very few tenants have had fair rents fixed, he will ask the Land Commission to fix a special sitting in Dingle at the earliest possible opportunity.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Land Commission inform me that the facts are substantially as stated in the Question. The sitting would in the ordinary course have taken place at Dingle, but owing to exceptional circumstances it was found necessary to hold it at Tralee. The next sitting for the district will be held at Dingle as usual. The date cannot at present be fixed, but it will be as soon as possible having regard to the claims of other districts.