I would ask for your patience while I read to the House information which the Ceann Comhairle did not have time to attend to before his departure.
I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given to me under Standing Order 20 (3) (a) and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Bernard Allen — the subject matter of Parliamentary Question No. 15 on 5 March, 1991 and the disclosure that unemployment has increased by 5 per cent in Cork City between January 1990 and January 1991; (2) Deputy Jim Higgins — the need for the Minister for Education to give the go ahead to the badly needed dental hospital; (3) Deputy Eamon Gilmore — the subject matter of Parliamentary Question No. 62 on 28 February 1991, concerning St. Kevin's School, Sallynoggin, County Dublin; (4) Deputy Eric Byrne — the need for a new dental teaching hospital in Dublin; (5) Deputy Pat McCartan — the restoration of walkie talkie radios to mobile patrol members of An Garda Síochána while on duty in the Dublin area; (6) Deputy Pat Rabbitte — the serious crisis facing voluntary and community projects which are operating social employment schemes because of the uncertainty over the ability of these important and worthwhile schemes to continue, due to the failure of FÁS to allow any new recruitment or to give any commitment to renew existing schemes; (7) Deputy Joe Sherlock — the announcement by Dairygold that it is to seek 250 redundancies immediately among its workforce, with the possibility of another 100 job losses later in the year, and the impact of this move on employment in the north Cork area; (8) Deputy Paul McGrath — the urgent situation of a student at Trinity College, who, though approved for a grant by Westmeath County Council, has had part of this grant impounded by that council pending payment of service charges to that council by the student's parents; (9) Deputy Tony Gregory — illegal gaming in slot machine arcades in the Dublin area; the Garda efforts to deal with this problem and the allegations in a Sunday newspaper of continued breaches of the law; (10) Deputy Roger Garland — the current crisis in the treatment of refugees applying for refuge in this country; (11) Deputy John O'Donoghue — the waiting list for ear, nose and throat services at Tralee General Hospital relative to other hospitals in the Southern Health Board region; (12) Deputy Dick Spring — the plans the Government has to assist in alleviating the pending human disaster of the 20 million people in Africa who face famine conditions this year, in view of the fact that early warning systems were not very good at identifying problems and bringing them to world attention.
The Ceann Comhairle has selected for discussion the matters raised by the following Deputies: Deputy Dick Spring, Deputy Joe Sherlock, Deputy Paul McGrath. Thank you for your patience and for your audience.