§ Mr. BUXTONasked the Minister of Agriculture the number of drainage schemes proposed by county authorities and already sanctioned, the approximate total, the estimated cost, and the approximate area affected?
Mr. GUINNESSA certain number of schemes have been the subject of correspondence recently between county councils and the Ministry in connection with the transfer of unemployed labour, but no scheme has yet been finally sanctioned. I would also add that although no county council has yet carried out 1589W any scheme under Section 1 of the Land Drainage Act, 1926, considerable use has been made by county councils of the other powers afforded to them under that Act.