I move that the amendment be agreed to. It imposes no new obligation on the Commissioners, for they would have done that in any event.

I move that the amendment be agreed to. The effect of the amendment is to substitute the Minister for Finance for the Commissioners of Public Works as the authority for serving notices in connection with the procedure to be carried out in the event of an alteration of the scheme becoming necessary.

I move that the amendment be agreed to. This prescribes the procedure to be adopted in the event of the Barrow navigation being interfered with, and it provides in that event that compensation shall be assessed by an engineer appointed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

I move that the amendment be agreed to. It allows the Barrow Drainage Board at the end of a period of 35 years to use any cash balance in their hands for the maintenance of works in the next year.

I move that the amendment be agreed to. It gives the Minister for Finance a little further control over the financial operations of the Barrow Board. The provisions of the Bill require them to invest money, and this enables them to realise investments when they think proper.

I move that the amendment be agreed to. This is permissive. It enables the Grand Canal Company, if asked by the Commissioners to carry out any work in connection with the Barrow navigation which may be regarded by them as suitable or convenient to do on the same lines as under the powers given to the Great Southern Railway Company by Section 27 of the Railways Act.

New Section. A new section inserted before Section 28, as follows:

"28.—If and in so far as the scheme provides for the diversion, removal, or other interference with any aqueduct carrying a canal or other navigable waterway the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say—

(a) the Commissioners shall at or before the completion of the work specified in the scheme either restore the aqueduct to its former condition or construct a new permanent aqueduct sufficient to carry the like amount (in quantity and character) of navigating traffic as the original aqueduct was able to carry and not substantially less convenient in gradient, curve, and depth than such original aqueduct;

(b) if any doubt, dispute, or question shall arise as to whether the Commissioners in the restoration or construction of an aqueduct pursuant to this section have complied with the provisions of this section, such doubt, dispute, or question shall be decided by the Minister for Industry and Commerce, whose decision shall be final and conclusive."

I move that the amendment be agreed to. It is introduced for the protection of the Grand Canal Company, and it makes provision for the possiblity of one of the aqueducts being interfered with.

I move that these amendments be agreed to. The first depends on the second, which alters somewhat the constitution of the Barrow Drainage Board. It gives one member to the Board of the Grand Canal Company, in consideration of the fact that part of the works which the Board will have to maintain is in the bed of the river owned by the Canal Company. It also provides that the Counties of Carlow, Kilkenny and Wicklow shall not have a member on the Board unless each pays a certain minimum price for repayment of the capital charge towards the maintenance, the amount being fixed at £300 a year. That includes contributions from the benefited lands and the county fund. As a matter of fact, the money qualification is less than the money qualification to be held by the representatives of the other counties.

Has any calculation been made as to the effect of this amendment on the representation of these counties on the Barrow Drainage Board?

If any one of these counties contributes £300 a year they will have one representative, and if they contribute less than that they will have none. At least one will contribute practically nothing, and it would be unfair to the other counties concerned that these particular counties should have over representation.