HC Deb 23 November 1909 vol 13 cc10-1
Mr. FLAVIN

asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will say why Michael Mulvihill, of Shroneowen, an evicted tenant on the Ormathwaite estate, has not been reinstated in his holding?

Mr. CHERRY

The Estates Commissioners have acquired certain lands on Lord Ormathwaite's estate with a view to providing holdings for three tenants evicted from the estate, including the man referred to in the question, but he has refused to purchase the lands offered to him by the Commissioners.

Mr. FLAVIN

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the sale of the estate was agreed to on a promise on behalf of the landlord that he would reinstate all those tenants, and that the agent of the landlord consented to that course?

Mr. CHERRY

I understand that that is so, but a dispute arose as to what was the holding of this particular tenant. That was as to mountain land, which the landlord said had never belonged to the holding. A compromise was arranged by the agent that portion of the mountain land should be added to the low lying portion of the holding, but the man refused to take that.