§ MR. LARDNER (Monaghan, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that in the case of Peter M'Guirk an evicted tenant reinstated on a farm in Drumlinny, County Monaghan, on the sale of the estate of Lord Rossmore, no advance appears to have been sanctioned; will he state when the tenant was put into possession of the farm; why no annuity has been collected from him, though his name is listed in the Return issued under the Evicted Tenants Act of tenants reinstated; and whether it is the intention of the Commissioners to ask this evicted tenant, who has no means whatever, to 1695 pay all the accrued interest since his reinstatement.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners cannot trace the name Peter M'Guirk, of Drumlinny, but one Peter M'Guirk has been reinstated in a holding on Lord Rossmore's estate in the townland of Effernagh, and the holding was vested in him as purchase on 1st June, 1906. He has paid the purchase instalments punctually.