§ MR. F. MEEHAN (Leitrim, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have received an application from John Harte, of Carrigans, an evicted tenant on the Lane-Fox estate, Dromahair, County Leitrim, which estate has been purchased by the Land Commission; and whether the Commissioners would take action to have Harte or his son, Thady Harte, reinstated 1628 of provided with a suitable farm elsewhere.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have received an application from Thady Harte for a holding on the Lane-Fox estate from which his grandmother appears to have been evicted in 1879. This holding is now in the occupation of a tenant-purchaser, and the Commissioners have no power to put the applicant in possession of it. The applicant is already in possession of a small holding which has been purchased under the Land Acts, but if untenanted land should become available in the locality the Commissioners will consider the question of allotting him a parcel for the enlargement of his present holding.