§ MR. DELANY (Queen's Co., Ossory)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a weir known as the Alen Leech Factory Weir, nine feet high across the river Nore, near Abbeyleix, forms an obstruction to the flow of the water, which is thrown back thereby a distance of five miles up the river causing flooding; and whether, as the factory is now idle and has not been working for the past five 51 years, he can state what objection there is to the removal of the weir.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe weir is not within an arterial drainage district, and the river Nore is not under the control of any local Body constituted under the Arterial Drainage Acts. The Commissioners of Public Works have no power, therefore, to take action as suggested.