§ Mr. FLAVINasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that Mrs. Dineen, widow of Patrick Dineen, of Glounalappa, Newtownsandes, made an application to the Estates Commissioners as an evicted tenant on the Finch estate; and whether the Estates Commissioners will inquire into the case with a view of an early grant and settlement to the tenant?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The application was not lodged within the period prescribed by the Evicted Tenants Act, 1907, and Mrs. Dineen does not, therefore, come within the class of evicted tenants mentioned in that Act. Proceedings for the sale of the estate on which the holding is situate have since been instituted before the Estates Commissioners and Mrs. Dineen is returned by the owner as the tenant in occupation of the holding subject to a judicial rent fixed in July, 1912, but a purchase agreement has not been lodged in respect thereof. The circumstances of the case will be inquired into when the estate is being dealt with by the Commissioners in its order of priority.