§ Mr. KEATINGasked the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland) if he is aware that Captain E. K. B. Tighe, Woodstock, county Kilkenny, possesses fishing rights in the tidal waters of the River Nore which enable him to use a net, which gives him a practical monopoly of the river for a considerable 973W distance; and will he state if the Department possesses powers to negotiate a purchase of these rights for the benefit of the fishing community on the river?
§ Mr. DUKEI am informed that Captain Tighe owns and exercises a right of several fishery in tidal waters in the River Nor. No allegation of illegality in the exercise of this right has been brought to the notice of the Department of Agriculture. The reply to the concluding portion of the question is in the negative.