Flooding query reveals Land Commission trust fund legacy

THE Land Commission is being implored to rise from the dead and part the flood-waters of the river Shannon.

Farmland at Ballysteen, Askeaton, Co Limerick, is being flooded and Limerick West Fianna Fail TD John Cregan raised the issue in the Dail, when he urged the Land Commission to arrange to have remedial works carried out on lands to prevent the flooding.

Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan said that as successor to the Irish Land Commission, her Department does not have responsibility for the maintenance, repair or restoration of river banks, embankments or other works to prevent flooding.