asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries if he will state when the work of completing the construction of the road through the O'Mahony Estate, Mountcollins, Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick, will be commenced and what is the cause of the delay; and if in view of the great inconvenience caused to the tenants owing to this road not being completed he will have the necessary work expedited.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Road on O'Mahony Estate, Abbeyfeale.
Inquiry is still in progress regarding the road on the O'Mahony Estate at Mountcollins and I am not therefore at present in a position to add to my previous reply to the Deputy on this matter on the 28th May last.
I was down there about a fortnight ago and I am well aware of the serious inconvenience caused to the unfortunate tenants through the lack of this road. The people are unable to take away their hay or, for that matter, other crops. They are obliged to pay their rates and taxes, but they receive no return in the way of a road. As they said to me, "Where is the use in having land if we have not a way out?" This matter has been the subject of agitation for at least fifteen or sixteen years and I think it is time that the Parliamentary Secretary interested himself in having the roadway completed. The people have no way out. I think it is a disgraceful condition of things that there is no roadway built there.
This matter has been held over pending the division of another estate in the vicinity. In view of the fact that certain arrangements may be carried out later on, it might not be necessary to make this road.
There has been an agitation in this district for the last sixteen or eighteen years and the least the Government might do would be to convenience the people there.