§ 19. Mr. CRUMLEYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he can state the number of evicted tenants in county Fermanagh who have not yet been reinstated or for whom new holdings have not been provided by the Estates Commissioners; and when such people may expect to receive the benefits intended for them by the Evicted Tenants Act?
§ Mr. SHORTTEleven persons seeking reinstatement as tenants, or the representatives of tenants, evicted from holdings in county Fermanagh, have been provisionally noted by the Estates Commissioners for consideration in the distribution of such untenanted land as they may acquire under the Land Purchase Acts, and their cases will be considered when the Commissioners have lands available for distribution.
§ Mr. CRUMLEYHas not this been going on for many years, and is there not a lot of land held by men who can well spare a large portion of their property, and who are keeping away from it? Will the right hon. Gentleman see that these unfortunate people who have been out for years can get what they require?
§ Mr. SHORTTI really cannot add anything, I am afraid, to the answer I have given.