Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 273: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will take steps to have a bridge put in place over a drain, which the Office of Public Works has recently sunk on lands belonging to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19477/06]

Tom Parlon (Laois-Offaly, Progressive Democrats)
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I am advised that the drain in question was widened and deepened as part of the Boyne catchment drainage scheme in 1976. It is maintained on an ongoing basis, most recently last year. The scheme design did not include construction of a bridge. There are no proposals to provide a bridge at this location. The Commissioners of Public Works would not object if the landowner wishes to construct a bridge, provided it is constructed in accordance with their approval as provided by the Arterial Drainage Act.