§ MR. GINNELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, in the interest of local peace and the success of their scheme for distributing the untenanted land on the Pakenham estate in Westmeath, the Estates Commissioners will reconsider the purpose ascribed to them of planting on that land persons objectionable to the community, such as bailiffs from other estates who should be provided for by their employers; and whether, in a matter affecting the pockets of the local ratepayers, a draft scheme of distribution will be submitted to the representatives of those ratepayers, and their views thereon considered.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners will carefully consider all the circumstances before deciding on the mode in which the untenanted land on this estate is to be dealt with, and will have due regard to any representations that may be submitted on behalf of the people of the locality. The reply to the concluding part of the Question is in the negative.
§ MR. MOORE (Armagh, N.)Are we to understand the Estates Commissioners will give due regard to representations from the people of a locality denouncing 128 particular men as being bailiffs and prevent them having an allotment?
§ MR. BIRRELLNothing of the kind, Sir.