asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries if he will state what action he is prepared to take to prevent the serious coast erosion which has been taking place for some time past on the Commonage and Golf Links on the Stoney Estate at Murrevagh, Mulranny.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Stoney Estate, Mayo.
asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries if he will see that the river and main drain leading through the village of Murrevagh, Mulranny, on the Stoney Estate, will get the necessary cleaning and attention, both of which affect the tenants' tillage land very seriously.
asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries if he will state when the unfinished roads on the Stoney Estate in the village of Murrevagh, Mulranny, will be completed; and if he is aware that the roads referred to are one at each end of the village and the circular road leading to the Harbour.
asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries if he will state when the log-spitted roads in Glenamadice on the Stoney Estate will be completed for the use of tenants who have been given turbary there.
I shall answer the four questions together. Inquiry will be made by the Land Commission into the questions of drainage, roads, turbary, and erosion referred to by the Deputy in his four questions, relative to the Stoney Estate, in order to ascertain how far, if at all, they are matters to be undertaken by the Land Commission.
Has the Parliamentary Secretary been informed by his Department as to what steps they are about to take? I am given to understand, as far as coast erosion is concerned, that for the last 20 years there are about 50 acres of land less. That is a great disadvantage to the tenants there. So far as roads are concerned, the people have been given their turbary for 23 years, and they are unable to make any use of it because of the lack of road services. They further suffer a great disadvantage by being unable to get turf off their turbary land.
I told the Deputy that inquiries would be made. I am not in a position to say what steps will be taken until the Land Commission has an opportunity of examining the inspector's report with regard to erosion. Erosion may have taken place, to a slight extent, in that area, but considerable accretion has also taken place, with the result that an island which originally was separated from the mainland has recently become attached to the mainland.