asked the Minister for Lands and Agriculture whether he is aware that heretofore the Land Commission cleaned the Upper Inny river and a tributary of same on the estate of W. L. Naper, at Springhall, Oldcastle, Co. Meath, the former from Willbrook to Dromore and the latter to Springhall; that the expense of cleansing was defrayed out of an annual allowance paid by the Land Commission; that the Land Commission declined to grant this allowance for the past two years, with the result that a large acreage of land along the river Inny is under water through the overflowing of the river, and serious damage has been caused thereby to crops, and whether he will direct the Land Commission to continue the allowance formerly granted so that the work of cleansing this river and its tributary may be completed before the sowing season of 1925.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - CLEANING OF CO. MEATH RIVER.
On the sale of the estate of W. L. Naper, County Meath, by the owner to the tenants under the Irish Land Act, 1903, the owner provided a fund of £600, the income of which was to be applied in cleansing the watercourses on the estate which formerly had been cleansed by him.
The annual income of this Fund amounts to £30, and it is applied each year in the cleansing of the watercourses in question. The Commissioners have had an inspection made and have arranged to have expended at an early date the money at present available.