§ 21. Mr. HACKETTasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that Mr. W. P. Hanly, owner in fee of the-lands of Cloneyross and Annesgrove, county Tipperary, has recently offered Annesgrove House and lands for sale by-private treaty, and that the people of the district object to the sale of this farm unless the owners dispose of the evicted lands of Cloneyross to the Estates Commissioners for redistribution; whether he can state the cost of extra police in this district for the last two years; and what amount of the cost will fall upon the ratepayers of the district?
§ Mr. SHORTTThe lands of Cloneyross were purchased under the Land Purchase Acts in 1893 by Patrick Cody, the tenant in occupation, and they were vested in him as owner in fee simple in 1894. He subsequently transferred them to Mr. Hanly, by whom the outstanding instalments of the land purchase annuity were redeemed in March, 1916. The Estates Commissioners received applications from four persons seeking reinstatement as tenants evicted from the lands of Cloneyross, and they provided them with new holdings on untenanted land acquired by the Commissioners under the Irish Land Act, 1903. Mr. W. P. Hanly sold portions of the lands of Cloneyross and Annesgrove some time ago, and, owing to local trouble in connection with these sales, it was necessary to quarter extra police in the locality for the past two years. These extra police cost approximately £1,430, but none of this will fall on the ratepayers of the district.