§ MR. McKEAN (Monaghan, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland why, under the sale and purchase of the Leslie estate, at Ballybay, in the county of Monaghan, the agreements for which have been duly signed, it is not proposed to reinstate David M'Clean, of Derryvalley, a tenant who was evicted ten years ago from his holding because he refused to pay an increase of rent.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that the lands in which David M'Clean claims reinstatement consist of a town park, and therefore 853 do not conic within the provisions of Section 2 (1) (d) of the Act of 1903. Moreover, the applicant himself was not the evicted tenant, but his brother, George M'Clean, who is now in America. The Commissioners have decided that in any event the case is not one in which they can take action.