§ MR. J. P. FARRELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to state the grounds upon which the Estates Commissioners have declined to provide Bridget and Joseph Mullooly, of Rathcline, County Longford, with equivalent holdings to those from which they were evicted; will he say whether they were evicted within the period named in the Evicted Tenants Act; whether they applied in due time; and whether, seeing that they are farmers willing to work the land, he will ask them to reconsider this case.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe applicants were evicted within the period named in the Evicted Tenants Act, and their applications were received within the time limited by the Act. The Estates Commissioners have declined to take any action upon the applications because they are of opinion that the Mullooly family already have sufficient land. They occupy a holding of 100 acres which has been purchased under the Land Acts.