§ MR. TULLYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the attention of the Board of Works has been directed to the periodical flooding of the Tributary of Cloone river issuing from Little Lake, in the barony of Carrigallen, South Leitrim, and the consequent injury to the adjoining farms in the locality, which is a congested district in the Bawnboy Union; and whether, as the people are suffering acute distress from the failure of the potato crop, the Board of Works will take steps to give employment there by having this river deepened where necessary in its course?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELANDThe tributary in question is included in the Rinn and Black River Drainage District, but it does not form one of the water courses which the Trustees under the Award of 1859 are bound to maintain, and therefore the Board of Works have no power to carry out works of improvement as suggested. With regard to the question of distress in the locality, I have nothing at present to add to my statement in answer to the Question put to me by the hon. Member for West Cavan on Tuesday last.