I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 20 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Jim Mitchell — The need for an urgent review of the performance of Telecom Éireann by the Government especially where employment is impeded by telephone delays or other inefficiencies; (2) Deputy Deasy — The steps the Government is taking to protect the wreck and contents of the Lusitania which is lying on the sea-bed off the Old Head of Kinsale; (3) Deputy Flood — The difficulties which exist between the Eastern Health Board, Dublin Corporation and the Thomas McDonagh Residents Association, Ballymun, on the one hand and Father Peter McVerry on the other in the matter of the hostel for homeless boys run by Father Peter McVerry in Ballymun; (4) Deputy O'Rourke — The steps, if any, it is proposed to take to meet with representatives from Borland International, Swords, County Dublin to save the 83 jobs at risk in the company; (5) Deputy Woods — The circumstances of a visit by an official of the Department of Equality and Law Reform to the headquarters of the Legal Aid Board in December 1994; and the implications this has for the independence of the board; (6) Deputy Kenneally — the problems that arise on a national basis as a result of the granting of tax concessions to farmers to plant trees and particularly the difficulties in the Mount Melleray area of County Waterford; (7) Deputy Ellis — The failure of the Department of Education to extend insurance cover to the area adjacent to the sports complex at Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim which it is proposed to use for the school buses serving the new comprehensive school; (8) Deputy O'Leary — The need for the construction of a replacement primary school at Bonane, Kenmare, County Kerry, in 1995 in view of the condition of the existing building; (9) Deputy Michael P. Kitt — The urgency of the need to appoint resource teachers in primary schools in East Galway; (10) Deputy Leonard — Funding for Road construction in the Border region; (11) Deputy O'Donoghue — The circumstances surrounding the robbery at the Brinks-Allied Premises in Clonshaugh, Dublin, on the night of 24 January 1995, and the progress of the Garda investigation in this matter and (12) Deputy Frances Fitzgerald — the ongoing problem in relation to patient treatment and the breakdown of machinery in St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
The matters raised by the following have been selected for discussion:- Deputies Flood, Woods, Deasy and O'Rourke.