§ Mr. O'DONNELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland what steps have been taken to provide land for Martin Murphy, who was evicted from his farm at Aghadoe, Killarney, on the estate of Lord Headley?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners have received applications from several members of the family of the late Martin Murphy seeking reinstatement in a holding formerly occupied by him on the estate of Lord Headley. The farm is in the occupation of other tenants, and the Commissioners have decided to take no action in the matter.
§ Mr. O'DONNELLasked whether the application of Mr. E. Barry, evicted tenant on the estate of Mrs. Blennerhasset, in the parish of Ballymacelligot, Tralee, county Kerry, has been reported on; and whether seeing that the land is now unoccupied, steps will be taken to have the evicted tenant reinstated in his former holding?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners have not received the application referred to in the question.
§ Mr. O'DONNELLasked what steps had been taken to reinstate Mr. John Courtney, evicted tenant, of Ballinvogig, Dingle, county Kerry; and whether, as dissatisfaction prevails in Kerry owing to the delay in reinstating evicted tenants, a special inspector will be sent down to deal with all outstanding cases?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that Mr. Courteney took the farm on the eviction of the2268W previous tenant, who has also made application for reinstatement. The farm is at present in the occupation of another tenant, and the Commissioners have decided to take no action in the matter. The Commissioners are proceeding as rapidly as possible with the reinstatement of all evicted tenants whose applications have been approved, and already 332 evicted tenants in county Kerry have been reinstated or provided with other holdings.
§ Mr. O'DONNELLasked whether the application of Timothy Buckley, in the parish of Gale, Listowel, for reinstatement in his farm at Coolkera, Listowel, Fosbury estate, has been inquired into; and what steps it is proposed to take in the matter?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that Buckley sold his interest to the present occupier, who is his brother-in-law. The Commissioners do not propose to take any action in the matter.
§ Mr. GILHOOLYasked whether the Estates Commissioners have received an application for reinstatement from D. M. Gallagher, representative of Jeremiah Gallagher, evicted tenant from a holding on the estate of Colonel F. Townsend, in the townland of Kilcoe, parish of Aghadown, county Cork; if so, has the case been considered and placed on the approved list; and, if the applicant cannot be reinstated in the holding from which his father had been evicted, will he be provided with a farm equivalent in value?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners have received an application for reinstatement from D. M. Gallagher. Gallagher's former holding is now in the occupation of tenants who have purchased under the Land Purchase Acts, and his name has been noted for consideration in the allotment of untenanted land acquired by the Commissioners.