asked the Minister for Finance whether he is aware that a number of farms which the owners purchased under the Land Purchase Acts are partially flooded each year at and adjoining Derrymore and Knockmant, near Killucan, Co. Westmeath, owing to the stopping of a culvert under the Royal Canal by the neglect, it is alleged, of the Great Southern Railway Company, and whether his Department will ask the company to re-open the culvert and maintain the watercourse at its old level.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS ORAL ANSWERS. - FLOODING OF WESTMEATH LANDS.
The office of Public Works has, through its engineers, already been in communication with the engineers to the Great Southern Railways Company regarding this matter, and the company's engineer has promised to attend to it. Further representations will now be made to him on the subject.