§ MR. O'SHEAasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether it is the intention 1587 of the Irish Board of Works to undertake any improvement of the Scariff River, which falls into Lough Derg, whereby floods may be rendered less dangerous to the navigation of that' tributary; whether the Board has considered the advisability of building a protection wall from the bridge at Killaloe to the pierhead, similar to the wall which'; was removed by the former Shannon Commissioners, or of adopting other means to insure the greater safety of the navigation of the Shannon at that point; and, whether the "cut" in the shoal at Bunnown, between Killaloe and O'Brien's Bridge, has been allowed to become choked with sand, the traffic-boats being thereby forced to use another course, condemned as dangerous more than sixty years ago?
§ MR. COURTNEY,in reply, said, that the channel of the Scariff River had been marked so as to show the course during floods, which had been considered sufficient for navigation. The Bunnown channel had been cleared last in September, 1882, and would be cleared again as soon as the state of the river permitted.