§ Mr. O'DONNELLasked the Chief Secretary, seeing that William Neill, of Bansha, Killorglin, held lands at Ballyseedy, Tralee, as agricultural tenant, paying a yearly rent up till 1885, would he request the Estates Commissioners to 1002W state their grounds for thinking he did not hold these lands as a tenant; were any inquiries made by any inspector regarding this farm, and, if so, when; whom did the inspector get his information from, and did he visit or make any inquiries from the evicted tenant himself?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that William O'Neill's application was fully inquired into by an inspector in 1909, and as a result of the inquiry it appeared that O'Neill did not hold the lands as tenant. It would be contrary to practice to make any statement as to the persons from whom the inspectors obtain information.