§ Mr. JAMES O'KELLYasked the Chief Secretary whether his attention has been called to the case of Pat Bushel, who was evicted in 1895 by Major Balfe, of Castlerea, and who has been promised several times by the Land Commissioners to be reinstated in a farm, and will he explain why this promise has not been fulfilled; whether he is aware that Mr. Stuart, acting for the Land Commission, on 4th May, 1907, sent Bushel a telegram saying that he was going to reinstate him in a farm and asking Bushel to meet him in Castlerea, and that next day Stuart wired him not to come, and since then Bushel has heard nothing; and whether, seeing that in replying to a question put about Bushel's case on 31st March, 1910, he stated that the Land Commissioners had noted his name for consideration in the allotment of untenanted land on an estate for which they were negotiating, but which they had not yet acquired, he will take steps to secure the fulfilment of the promises made to the evicted tenant, Pat Bushel, by the Land Commission?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe case of Pat Bushel, whose former holding is in the occupation of another tenant, has been noted for consideration in the allotment of untenanted land. The Estates Commissioners did not find themselves in a position to give him an allotment on the estate referred to in the reply to the question of the hon. Member on 17th March last, and they have at present under consideration the possibility of providing him with a holding elsewhere.