§ Mr. BOLANDasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Patrick Mahony, an evicted tenant on the Warden estate, near Sneem, county Kerry, has been gazetted for a holding on untenanted land, with the 1474W register number 4,008; and whether, in view of the fact that the Estates Commissioners hold some untenanted land at Coomlimina, on the Mahony estate, bordering on the Warden estate, they propose to give a portion of this untenanted land to Patrick Mahony?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners have received an application from Patrick Mahony for reinstatement in a holding on the Warden estate formerly occupied by him, and now in the occupation of a tenant who has signed an agreement to purchase his holding under the Land Purchase Acts, and have noted Mahony's application for consideration in the allotment of any untenanted land acquired by them. The Mahony estate to which the hon. Member refers is apparently that of Miss Mahony and Miss Hood, which has been acquired by the Commissioners. No scheme for the allotment of the untenanted lands on this estate has yet been prepared, and the Commissioners are not at present able to say whether it will be possible to give Mahony a holding on this estate or not.