§ DR. AMBROSE (Mayo, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to the flooding of certain lands near Westport, county Mayo, the property of the Congested Districts Board, owing to the salmon gaps in the Belclare River being kept closed and the sluices being kept down; and whether, in view of the amount of damage done to the lands of the neigh-bouring tenants by such floods, he will see that the salmon gaps and sluices are kept in order.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long). The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction have caused an inspection of this mill dam to be made, and the necessary steps are being taken to ensure compliance with the statutory
† See (4) Debates, cxxxiii., 22.539 regulations in connection with such mill dams.