§ 22. Mr. LYNCHasked whether the Estates Commissioners will this year re- 1164 instate any evicted tenants in West Clare; if so, how many, and within what limit of time; and whether, if the delay be caused by reason of land not being available, the Congested Districts Board will use the powers at their disposal to obtain the land necessary?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners are not in a position at present to state the number of holdings they can provide during the current year for evicted tenants on such untenanted land in county Clare as they may be able to acquire in the year. It is not at present possible to state how much land can be so acquired in that county or to estimate how much of it, if acquired, will have to be utilised by them in the enlargement of small holdings in the neighbourhood.
§ Mr. LYNCHIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that with proper business management all these questions could be disposed of in a week, instead of which they have been kept alive in a most vicious way for years?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI am sure a week would not be enough.