§ Mr. DORISasked the Chief Secretary whether William Gibbons, of Louisburgh, who was evicted from his house and land in Clare Island, county Mayo, by the Misses MacDonnell, applied to the Estates Commissioners within the prescribed time for reinstatement or for a new holding under the Evicted Tenants Act; and can he state why the Estates Commissioners have failed up to the present to deal with his application?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that Gibbons' former holding appears to have been purchased by the present occupiers through the Congested Districts Board, and the Commissioners cannot interfere in the matter, and do not intend to provide Gibbons with a holding elsewhere. His application was not lodged within the period prescribed by the Evicted Tenants Act, 1907.