§ Mr. DELANYasked the Chief Secretary what steps, if any, the Estates Commissioners have taken to provide a holding for Mrs. Delany, 49, Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin, representative of the late John Delany, who was evicted in 1887 from a holding of 111 Irish acres, situated at Roskeen, Adair estate, Mountmellick, Queen's County, and whose claim has been admitted, entitling her to an equivalent farm instead of that from which her late husband was evicted, and which is in the possession of a planter?
§ Mr. BIRRELL:Mrs. Delany's name has been noted by the Estates Commissioners for consideration in the distribution of such untenanted land as they may be able to acquire.
§ Mr. DELANYasked the Chief Secretary whether the Estates Commissioners have lost sight of the case of Thomas Flanagan, Clonoghadoo, who was evicted from a holding on the Adair estate, Mountmellick, Queen's County, in 1887, and whose farm is in the hands of a planter; and can he say whether the Commissioners intend making an advance to the planter, Guinan, in this case, to purchase the holding, or what provision they propose making for Flanagan, who at present is in occupation of a labourer's cottage?
§ Mr. BIRRELL:Flanagan has been provisionally selected for a holding on an estate which is being acquired by the Estates Commissioners.
MARQUESS of HAMILTONasked if the Estates Commissioners have yet considered the claim of William Murtland, who was evicted from his holding on the Cather estate, in the townland of Carrowmuddle, Myroe, county Londonderry, for reinstatement under the Evicted Tenants 160W Act; and, if so, at what decision they have arrived?
§ Mr. BIRRELL:The Estates Commissioners inform me that Murtland's application for reinstatement was not lodged within the period mentioned in Section 2 (a) of the Evicted Tenants Act, 1907, and cannot be dealt with under that Act.