HC Deb 21 December 1908 vol 198 cc2357-8
MR. JAMES O'KELLY (Roscommon, N.)

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if his attention has been called to the case of Dan Diffley, who was evicted twenty-four years ago from his holding containing about six English acres, situate at Cloonfad, near Roosky, in the County of Roscommon, the landlord of the holding being Captain Treadwick; is he aware that Dan Diffley was a yearly tenant, that John Diffley took the holding two years after the eviction of Dan Diffley, and that John Diffley's son, Thomas Diffley, is in occupation now of the holding from which Dan Diffley was evicted; that the estate is going to be sold out to the tenants through the Estates Commissioners; that the present applicant is Martin Diffley, of Kilmore, Clondra, and lives in a labourer's cottage with his wife and two children, and is a son of Dan Diffley, deceased; and that Martin Diffley wants to be reinstated in the home of his childhood, and is the personal representative of the evicted tenant Dan Diffley; and will he say what action the Estates Commissioners propose to take in this case.

(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have decided not to take any action on the application of Martin Diffley for reinstatement in the holding of which John Diffley's son is in occupation as tenant.