§ MR. J. MURPHY (Kerry, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that the Estates Commissioners' representatives paid several visits to Killarney recently to inquire into the claims of evicted tenants on the Kenmare estate; will he say if he has made a report on the several cases inquired into; whether the Commissioners have yet taken any steps to relieve, by way of grants, the tenants who have been reinstated on derelict farms; and whether they have taken, or propose to take, any steps to secure the reinstatement of evicted tenants whose farms have been grabbed on this estate.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have received their inspector's report on these cases, and will consider the making of grants to such tenants as have been reinstated and have signed purchase agreements. The applications of those evicted tenants whose farms are now occupied by other tenants, and who are deemed suitable, will be considered in the allotment of untenanted land to be acquired by the Commissioners.