§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork County, N.E.To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have considered the applications of Miss Hannah Clahane, Michael O'Regan, and 1088 Patrick Hannan for reinstatement in their holdings on the Grehan estate, Kildorrery, county Cork; if the farms formerly held by these tenants are now in the occupation of Mr. John J. Sherry, who resides at Mooresfoot, county Tipperary, over twenty miles distant, and that the farms are merely used as accommodation land, without an acre of tillage; and whether, under these circumstances, the Commissioners will consider the necessity of applying the compulsory powers they possess to effect the reinstatement of the evicted tenants in question.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have considered the applications in question, and have decided to take no action in the case of Patrick Hannan. In the other two cases the former holdings are held by judicial tenants, and the Commissioners consider that the compulsory provisions of the Evicted Tenants Act are not applicable in such cases. The Commissioners, however, will consider the applications in those cases in connection with the distribution of any untenanted land which they may acquire in the locality.