asked the Minister for Local Government if he is aware that there is great dissatisfaction in Galway City owing to the fact that it is proposed to build fixed bridges across the canal, thereby preventing navigation from Lough Corrib to Galway Bay; and, if so, what steps he proposes to take in the matter.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Galway City Dissatisfaction.
In response to a resolution of the Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees and after public notice of the proposal, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, by the Lough Corrib Navigation Act, 1945 (Section 13) Order, 1949, authorised the trustees to abandon the Dominick Street, New Road and Presentation Road bridges, and the navigation thereunder. The position, so far as the county council and the Minister for Local Government are concerned, is that there is now no right of navigation under these bridges, and that they are in a dangerous condition necessitating weight restrictions which present serious impediments to heavy main road and local traffic. I am not aware that there is dissatisfaction with the county council's proposal for their replacement by fixed bridges.