§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork County, N.E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will ascertain whether the Estates Commissioners are aware that Mr. John J. Therry, junior, Mooresfort, County Tipperary, would be disposed to surrender the evicted farms he is in possession of on the Grehan estate, County Cork, for the purpose of the reinstatement of the evicted tenants on that estate; if the Commissioners would provide him with land of equivalent 487 value elsewhere; and whether inquiry will be made into this matter.
§ MR. BIRRELLAs I have already informed the hon. Member, Mr. J. J. Therry is judicial tenant of the farms in question. The Estates Commissioners are not aware that Mr. Therry is willing to surrender the farms on being provided with land elsewhere, but they are prepared to consider any representation to that effect which he may make to them.