§ MR. TULLY (Leitrim, S.)I beg to .ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he has received a complaint from the proprietor of an eel fisherery at Lough Gara, near Boyle, as to his having suffered a loss of £60 during the last two years owing to the floods caused by the drainage operations carried out by the Congested Districts Board on the Dillon estate; and whether he can state what compensation the Board intend to award him for the loss he has sustained.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. WYNDHAM, Dover)The Congested Districts Board made inquiry into 598 the matter of this complaint and were satisfied that the drainage operations had not had the effect stated. The Board therefore declined to pay compensation.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe investigation has been made.