§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state what steps have been taken to reinstate or otherwise provide for Mrs. Mary Wilson, who was evicted from two farms in the county of Westmeath, near Tyrrellspass, one on Colonel Smyth's estate, at Gaybrook, and the second on that of Mr. Boyd Rocliford's; and can he say if the Estates Commissioners propose to acquire the non-residential grazing farm of Newtown, estate of Major Murphy, situated in the vicinity, seeing that there are other evicted tenants in the locality as well as Mrs. Wilson unprovided for.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have referred the case of Mrs. Wilson to an inspector with the object of providing her with a holding if possible. The Commissioners have no knowledge of the untenanted land referred to in the second part of the Question, but if furnished with the name and address of the owner and particulars of the land they will consider the question of acquiring it.