I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Gregory – the need for an educational task force in Dublin's north inner city; (2) Deputy Deasy – the need to distribute copies of the collection of the Folklore Commission to the various library committees throughout the country; (3) Deputy Ring – the payment of unemployment benefit to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; (4) Deputy Crawford – the urgent need for the Government to commit funding for the Castle Saunderson camp site for all the scouts on the island of Ireland as it is a true project to foster peace and reconciliation among people from both sides of the border; (5) Deputy O'Malley – the question of the temporary release from Castlerea prison last weekend of two of the killers of detective Garda Jerry McCabe; (6) Deputy Shatter – the need to carry out refurbishment works on St. Colmcille's primary school, Knocklyon, Dublin, and to sanction the construction of new permanent school classrooms and essential facilities such as a school library and administrative offices; (7) Deputy Sargent – that the Minister respond to reports from forestry experts that the millen nium forest will, in ten years, be reduced to 35,000 trees after thinning and, accordingly, if this plan has been revised to ensure 25 million trees are planted initially so that each household actually will, after ten years, have a tree which is likely to reach maturity; (8) Deputy Neville – clinical trials on patients in psychiatric institutions; (9) Deputy Owen – to ask about the breast check system and the fact that women who are entitled to this facility are at present being denied; (10) Deputy Jim Higgins – the totally inadequate services, particularly speech therapy services, for children suffering from Down's syndrome in County Mayo and (11) Deputy Coveney – the need to set up a pilot drugs court programme outside the Dublin area, as is planned for inner city Dublin in January 2001.
The matters raised by Deputies Gregory, Deasy, Crawford and O'Malley have been selected for discussion.