asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the arterial drainage work on the River Lung and Breedogue catchment areas and the resulting greatly improved flow of the rivers, was in turn causing flooding greater than any previously experienced along the Boyle River particularly between Cuppenagh Bridge, County Sligo and Tinnecarra, County Roscommon; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that Boyle River channel and entrance to the channel has become badly silted with the drainage work upstream, and that farmland previously free of floods was now susceptible to severe flooding; and in view of this new difficulty; the action he proposes to take to alleviate the problem.
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