asked the Minister for Finance if his Department will provide funding for the drainage of the Brown Flesk River from the River Maine to O'Connell's Bridge, County Kerry.
Written Answers. - County Kerry Drainage Scheme.
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Funding for arterial drainage works is provided in the Vote for the Office of Public Works. Although the Brown Flesk River is situated in the River Maine catchment area, it was excluded, on economic grounds, from the Maine catchment drainage scheme carried out by the Commissioners of Public Works between 1959 and 1963. The Commissioners' responsibilities in the catchment area are now statutorily confined to the maintenance of the completed scheme works and they have no plans to undertake works on the Brown Flesk.