§ MAJOR TRENCHasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether it is a fact that an application from proprietors and others, in the country traversed by the River Suck, to form the districts liable to inundation from that river into drainage districts under the Drainage Act of 1863, has been refused by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, acting under the direction of the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury; and, if such is the case, whether he will state to the House on what grounds this application by parties to be permitted to improve their river and drain their lands, at their own expense, has been refused?
THE CHANCELLOR OE THE EXCHEQUERin reply, said, that the application referred to had been refused, upon the ground that the proprietors of the River Suck could only drain their land into the River Shannon, which could not be permitted until some scheme for the drainage of the River Shannon itself had been determined upon.