DRAINAGE OF THE ESLIN RIVER.

HC Deb 10 February 1898 vol 53 c235

MR. TULLY (Leitrim, S.)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury what steps have been taken by the Board of Works for Ireland with regard to the drainage of the Eslin River, in South Leitrim?

THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY

I have received the following telegram from the Board of Works:— The Board are informed by the secretary to the drainage trustees that, at their last meeting, contracts were entered into for cleaning the rivers and drains of the Eslin district, and that men are at work on most of the thirty-two sections into which the work is divided. The contracts are to be completed by 16th June. The above action of the trustees was not instigated by the Board of Works, who had received no complaint as to the district justifying their intervention.