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: Deputy Fennell — whether the Minister for Education will issue guidelines to State supported schools forbidding the use of school buildings and grounds for organising, promoting or postering functions meetings or marches about abortion; Deputy McCormack — the urgent matter of Gael Scoil Dara, Renmore, Galway, and whether the Minister for Education will provide a premises for this school for the coming year; Deputy Durkan — the failure of the Minister for Education to respond to the needs of Confey College, Leixlip, County Kildare, by way of provision of permanent buildings to replace temporary school buildings currently in use; Deputy M. Higgins — the steps the Government are taking or plan to take to address the current position in the Horn of Africa and the loss of life in Somalia; Deputy Deasy — the subject matter of Parliamentary Question No. 12 on 29 April 1992 regarding the future of Waterford Crystal operations in Ireland; Deputy Gregory — the recent media revelations that up to six major international drug traffickers are conducting their operations from Ireland; the measures the Garda are taking to deal with this serious matter, and the additional resources the Garda drug unit will have to respond effectively to this threat; Deputy G. O'Sullivan — the serious financial circumstances of a County Cork widow whose husband was killed on peace-keeping duties in the Lebanon and the steps the Minister for Defence proposes to take to alleviate her plight; Deputy Boylan — the reason patients in private nursing homes in Cavan are not entitled to the same subvention payments from the North-Eastern Health Board as the patients in nursing homes generally across the country, and if the Minister for Health is aware of the crisis in Cavan regarding the care of the elderly and (9) Deputy Flaherty the continuing strike at the Dublin Corporation Parks Department.
I have selected for discussion the matters raised by Deputies G. O'Sullivan, Deasy and McCormack.