§ Mr. JAMES O'KELLYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the tenants on the Kirkwood estate, situate at Cloonligh, county Roscommon, near Carrick-on-Shannon, who purchased their holdings about 10 years ago, had their crops and stock destroyed by floods in 1903, in consequence of which they find themselves unable properly to stock their lands; whether the Irish Land Commission is in a position to advance money to them to give them a 337 chance properly to work their land and meet their annuities; and, if so, whether the Land Commission will take this case immediately into their consideration?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Land Commission have no information with regard to the losses stated to have been suffered by these tenant purchasers who became proprietors of their holdings in 1898, nor have they any funds from which the advances suggested in the question could be made.