§ MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHYasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Whether he has heard that a number of tenant farmers, living by the River Inny, in that part of Longford county lying between the town of Ballymahon and where the Inny falls into the Shannon, sustain great losses annually from the flooding of their pasture and meadow land by the river; and, whether something will be done to prevent the periodical overflow of the river?
§ MR. COURTNEY, in reply, said, it was true that the district between the 653 town of Ballymahon and where the Inny falls into the Shannon was liable to be flooded; but the Government had no power to take the initiative to prevent the periodical overflow of the river, and there was no Drainage Board in this district.