§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will state the number of evicted tenants, including representatives of evicted tenants, noted by the 882W Estates Commissioners as suitable for holdings, who remained unprovided with holdings at the end of August, 1909, in each county and in the whole of Ireland?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe following Return gives by counties the number of evicted tenants, or representatives of evicted tenants, who have been provisionally noted by the Estates Commissioners for consideration in the allotment of untenanted land:—
County. Antrim 8 Armagh 7 Cavan 38 Donegal 19 Down 11 Fermanagh 60 Londonderry 7 Monaghan 21 Tyrone 39 Total for Ulster 210 Carlow 9 Dublin 7 Kildare 6 Kilkenny 9 King's 12 Longford 12 Louth 10 Meath 18 Queen's 51 Westmeath 5 Wexford 26 Wicklow 21 Total for Leinster 186 Galway 134 Leitrim 42 Mayo 54 Roscommon 10 Sligo 20 Total for Connaught 260 Clare 22 Cork 174 Kerry 129 Limerick 40 Tipperary 36 Waterford 76 Total for Munster 477 Total for Ireland 1,133
§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary if he will state approximately the number of evicted tenants, including representatives of evicted tenants, in each county and in the whole of Ireland, whose claims are valid on the merits, and who, 883W through no fault of their own but in consequence of eviction, have become, in the opinion of the Commissioners, unsuitable for holdings; whether their greater misfortune deprives them of all remedy; and, if not, what provision the Government proposes to make for them?
§ Mr. BIRRELLIt is not possible to say how many applications lodged by persons seeking reinstatement as evicted tenants or the representatives of evicted tenants have been rejected by the Estates Commissioners in the exercise of the discretion vested in them, solely on the ground that the applicants were unsuited to work land.