I propose, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, to take Questions Nos. 6 and 7 together.
I can find no specific direction on the files of the Office of Public Works in May of 1952, or at any other time, that the survey of the Corrib catchment should not be completed.
A direction was given in that month, however, that four engineers—not a full survey party—who became available should be sent to augment the depleted survey staff on the Moy catchment.
The reasons for the direction are not recorded. On the change of Government, in 1951, Mr. Beegan, Parliamentary Secretary at the time, did not change the decision, taken by his predecessor in office, to proceed with the Corrib-Clare sub-catchment, which did not include the Black River.