§ Mr. SAMUEL YOUNGasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that three tenants evicted at the same time as Patrick Carolan on the estate of Sir Robert Hodson, known as the Skeagh estate, county Cavan, have been supplied with farms, whilst Carolan has not; whether the present tenant of Carolan's farm has been asked whether he is willing to surrender it; and, if he has refused, whether steps will be taken to provide Carolan with a farm elsewhere at the earliest possible date?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that they have provided farms for the evicted tenants on this estate whom they considered suitable. The present occupier of Carolan's former holding has bought it under the Land Purchase Acts, and no further advance can be made for its purchase. The Commissioners will consider whether they should provide Carolan with another holding.