HC Deb 14 April 1910 vol 16 cc1402-3
Mr. O'SHAUGHNESSY

asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he can say what steps the Estates Commissioners have taken to purchase the two evicted farms on the estate of Lane Joynt, at Aughanish, in the county of Limerick, with the view to reinstating the evicted tenants on them; and whether, seeing that these tenants have been out of their holdings for twenty years, the Estates Commissioners will now take steps to have them reinstated?

Mr. BIRRELL

The Estates Commissioners are not yet in a position to make an offer for the purchase of these lands.

Mr. O'SHAUGHNESSY

Is it not time, after twenty years, that these evicted tenants were returned to their farms? What is the cause of the delay? Is it due to any action on the part of the landlords?

Mr. BIRRELL

I will call the attention of the Estate Commissioners again to the matter.