§ Mr. O'DONNELLasked the Chief Secretary whether Mrs. Finn, Curraduff, Camp, county Kerry, is being evicted by the Congested Districts Board because she refuses to accept terms of purchase which were contrary to the agreement with the tenants; whether, at the time of the agreement, tenants who did not think the proposed reductions adequate were invited to go into Court and have fair rents fixed; whether Mrs. Finn availed of this alternative, got a fair rent fixed, and since then not alone has she been refused the terms of the sale, but has been put to considerable annoyance and cost; and what steps he proposes to take to compel the Board to carry out the terms of their agreement?
§ Mr. BIRRELLMrs. Finn was a judicial tenant at the time the estate was purchased by the Congested Districts Board and refused to sign an undertaking to buy her holding on the terms applicable to her then existing tenancy. As a judicial tenant she did not have the option extended to non-judicial tenants, who did not sign undertakings of serving notice to have a fair rent fixed and of purchasing their holdings on the reduced basis of the new rent. When, however, she had a second term rent fixed the Board decided as a special concession to sell her the holding on the basis of a reduction of 3s. 6d. in the £ off the new rent. The annuity payable on these terms is £10 11s. 4d., as compared with a first term rent of £23 8s. when the Board purchased the estate, but Mrs. Finn is not satisfied with this liberal reduction, and in view of her refusal to pay the rent demanded on the basis of this proposal the Board have no alternative but to institute ejectment proceedings.