§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state upon what grounds the Estates Commissioners have refused to reinstate Martin Brien, Ballynulta, Shillelagh, in the farm on the Fitzwilliam Estate from from which his father had been evicted.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) Martin Brien is a younger son of the evicted tenant. His elder brother, Nicholas, has also applied to the Estates Commissioners for reintatement, and, in their opinion, he has a prior claim in the event of their being able to provide a holding. The evicted farm has been purchased by the occupying tenant, but the Commissioners 68 will consider whether it may be possible to provide another holding for Nicholas Brien.