§ Mr. VINCENT KENNEDYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will request the Estates Commissioners to send down a fresh inspector to further investigate the cases of John Reilly, Creenagh, and William O'Donnell, Drumconlister, the Killeshandra evicted tenaints whose claims for reinstatement are already recognised by the Estates Commissioners; and will he say what farm was offered to John Reilly?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners are not prepared to reopen these cases in which they have decided to take 1809W no action. No farm was offered to Reilly. He stated he would not take any other farm than that formerly occupied by him which is now in the occupation of another tenant.
Dr. O'NEILLasked the Chief Secretary if he is aware that Mrs. M. J. M'Keown, of Crossmaglen, applied some time ago to the Estates Commissioners for reinstatement to the holding known as Harry-mount, Cullyhana, county Armagh, from which she was evicted by the landowner, Mrs. Georgina Leslie; and if he can say what is the cause of delay on the part of the Commissioners or how soon Mrs. M'Keown may hope to be reinstated?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners are unable from the particulars given to trace the receipt of any application for reinstatement from the evicted tenant referred to.
Dr. O'NEILLasked the Chief Secretary if he is aware that Bernard Toner was evicted from his farm on the Douglas estate, in the townland of Corran, county Armagh, about twenty years ago; that he has applied to the Estates Commissioners for reinstatement, but up to the present without success; and how soon he may expect to be restored to his former holding?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners have received an application from Bernard Toner for reinstatement in a holding on the Blacker Douglas estate, county Armagh, formerly occupied by him, and now in the possession of his brother-in-law. The Commissioners understand that Toner resides in the house on the holding by permission of his brother-in-law who is prepared to surrender on receiving the amount of arrears of rent paid by him. The application was not received within the period limited by the Evicted Tenants Act, 1907. It does not, therefore, come within that Act, and the estate is not the subject of proceedings before the Commissioners under the Land Purchase Acts, so that they cannot take any steps in the matter.