COLONEL NOLANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if the Board of Works have lately issued Orders to ensure that the floods do not rise above the Parliamentary levels; and if they have reconsidered their instructions so as to combat the sudden increase of water caused by the drainage of the Suck and by the general drainage?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTI am informed that there are no Parliamentary levels regulating the height of floods on the Shannon. The Shannon sluices require to be and are worked with the greatest judgment, with strict reference to the interests of owners and occupiers whose lands are situated both above and below the sluices.
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTI am informed by the Board of Works that the sluices are worked with the greatest judgment, and no complaint has been received respecting them; but if the hon. and gallant Member has any suggestion to make, I will see that it is duly considered.