Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will arrange for an investigation to be carried out by the Office of Public Works for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo to see if an ongoing drainage problem can be resolved. [20575/08]

Martin Mansergh (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)
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The OPW and Mayo County Council undertook works to divert a channel of the Moy Catchment Drainage Scheme during the construction of the Rathroeen Landfill Site. Further alterations to the scheme channels took place over time.

The works resulted in waters, which had previously flowed overland through a channel of the Scheme and Rathroeen Lough, flowing through a newly laid pipeline.

I am advised that any alterations were localised and have had minimal impact on the drainage of the area. Officials from the OPW have visited the site on a number of occasions and are satisfied that the scheme is operating to its design parameters. It is not proposed to carry out further works at present.