§ MR. P. MEEHANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Estates Commissioners, acting on the report of their inspector, refused the claim of John Kelly, the grandson and only representative of Mr. Daniel Whelan, who was evicted from Barrow House farm of 182 acres on the Lansdowne estate, Queen's County, on the grounds that John Kelly's father held 200 acres and that the kinship was too remote; whether he is aware that John Kelly's father has a second family of six children; whether he is also aware that the planter, Henry Hosie, was, at the date when the Estates Commissioners sanctioned the advance to him for the purchase of Barrow House farm, already in occupation of 584 acres; and will he say under what section of the Act of 1903 or any Act the claim of the evicted tenant was repudiated because his father occupied 200 acres and the farm to which he claimed restoration given to a planter holding 584 acres.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners, in the exercise of their discretion, have decided to take no action on the application of John Kelly, The principles on which they act in dealing with such applications are set out in paragraph 25 of their special Report of 11th June, 1907 [Cd. 3570]. As regards Henry Hosie I would refer the Hon. member to the reply which I have just given him.