MR. C. MACVEIGH (Donegal, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he is aware that Patrick Hannigan, who was evicted from his holding on the estate of Alice A. Hayes, near Stranorlar, East Donegal, and after some time reinstated, was promised a grant from the Estates Commissioners to build up his farmhouses, by an inspector who visited his holding in 1906, which grant he has not yet received; and whether he can say when the grant will be paid to him, as he has lost some of his cattle for want of houses to shelter them.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BIRRELL,N.) Bristol,The Estates Commissioners gave a free grant of £80 in Mr. Hannigan's case, namely, £53 15s. 0d. for buildings and £26 5s. 0d. for live stock. The whole of this amount has been expended, the last payment being made in January, 1907.