HC Deb 26 April 1883 vol 278 c1150
COLONEL NOLAN

asked the Secretary to the Treasury, If he can now state when the sluices and other works on the Shannon will be in an efficient state to prevent the undue rising of the summer floods?

MR. COURTNEY

Sir, the Shannon sluices will, I am informed, be all available for the regulation of the coming summer floods, whenever they may occur.