HC Deb 09 December 1908 vol 198 cc446-7
MR. O'SHAUGHNESSY

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can say what is the cause of delay in giving grants to the evicted tenants on the Knight of Glin's estate, at Glin, in the county of Limerick; is he aware that these tenants were reinstated last May and promised grants to enable them to pay the percentage on the purchase money pending completion of sale, and that unless provision be made for them at once to enable them to stock their farms they cannot in the future pay their instalments.

(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that

— 1903. 1904. 1905. 1906. 1907.
£ £ £ £ £
Government 236,120 211,855 309,566 309,567 298,615
Commercial:
Spirits 220,871 277,300 262,256 301,738 385,505
Other 1,671,151 1,933,558 2,020,584 2,236,013 3,155,219
Total Value of imports* 2,128,142 2,422,713 2,592,406 2,847,318 3,839,339
* Exclusive of specie imported.