§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will bring under the notice of the Estates Commissioners the case of a poor man named James Power, of Kilbreedy, Kilcornan, in the county of Limerick, who was evicted on title nine years ago by the Earl of Dunraven from a holding consisting of about 27 acres of bog land, of which the former was in occupation for over forty years, on which he spent years of toil endeavouring to reclaim, and for which he paid a rent of £5 annually; and whether, having regard to the fact that Lord Dunraven subsequently gave this land to a man named Millar, and further to the hardship of the case, he will cause the Estates Commissioners at once favourably to consider the claim of Power for some untenanted land in the county.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.)The Estate Commissioners have fully investigated the case in question, and, after consideration of all the facts, have decided to take no action in it.