§ MR. P. MEEHAN (Queen's County, Leix)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that in fifteen cases where judicial rents have been recently fixed on the De Vesci estate, Abbeyleix, Queen's County, appeals have been lodged by the landlord; and whether, in view of the fact that all those tenants are poor people, many of them being unable to provide the means of attending in Dublin with their witnesses, he will arrange for the appeals to be heard at Abbeyleix.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Land Commission inform me that no sitting has yet been fixed for the hearing of the appeals referred to in the Question. The place for holding the sitting will be considered by the Commissioners with due regard to the public convenience.