HC Deb 27 March 1913 vol 50 cc1814-5
31. Mr. O'DONNELL

asked whether the application of Mrs. O'Brien, Castlemaine, county Kerry, for reinstatement, has been inquired into; and, if so, what do the Commissioners propose to do in her case; and, seeing that she and her ancestors held the lands from which she was evicted for over seventy years, will the Commissioners give some explanation for the delay in dealing with her case?

Mr. RUSSELL

The Estates Commissioners received an application from Johanna O'Brien for reinstatement in a holding formerly occupied by her as subtenant on the estate of Lord Monteagle, county Kerry, and now in the possession of a tenant purchaser, and decided not to take any action in the matter of her application.

Mr. O'DONNELL

Is it not a fact that this lady and her ancestors have been in possession of this land for over seventy years?

Mr. RUSSELL

That may be so, but under the circumstances, if any arrangement is to be made it must be by agreement.

Mr. REDDY

May I ask what has become of the compact entered into under the so-called blessed Act of 1903 that was to restore all the evicted tenants?

Mr. RUSSELL

Many of the evicted tenants have been reinstated.