§ Mr. SHEEHANasked the Chief Secretary whether the estate of Thomas Miller, a minor, situate at Clontead, Coachford, county Cork, has come under the notice of the Estates Commissioners; have any agreements for a sale been filed with 21 them; whether it is now sought to create a tenancy in favour of one Daniel Halloran, a caretaker of a farm on this estate from which Jeremiah O'Mahony was evicted for non-payment of rent in June, 1883; have the Estates Commissioners power under any existing Act, or is it proposed to invest them with power under the present Land Bill to exclude tenancies of this kind, created for the purposes of a sale and with the object of excluding the claims of the evicted tenants from the general sale; and, if not, will he state what steps it is proposed to take to safeguard the position of evicted tenants whose holdings are at present occupied by caretakers who may at any moment be converted into bogus tenants?
§ Mr. CHERRYThe Estates Commissioners cannot identify any estate of Thomas Miller, a minor, as pending for sale before them. The Commissioners have inquired into and considered Jeremiah Mahony's application for reinstatement in a holding formerly occupied by him, and have decided to take no action in the matter.