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 Sargent—The devastating impact on the Dublin 15 area if schools and youth organisations, including sports clubs, are deprived of the open space at Beech Park Avenue, Dublin 15, and the need to ensure that short term considerations do not cost this area an open space on which it has depended for over 60 years; (2) Deputy Browne (Carlow/Kilkenny)—the need to provide emergency relief for the residents and businesses at Graiguecullen, County Carlow, affected by the serious flooding in that area at present; (3) Deputy O'Donnell—the immediate need to establish, in consultation with Cospóir and other State and voluntary bodies, a code of practice for the reporting of sexual abuse of children and for the vetting of sports coaches; (4) Deputy Killeen—the need to take urgent action to alleviate the suffering of householders and others in Sixmilebridge and other areas of County Clare whose homes and properties have been destroyed by recent floods; (5) Deputy Noel Treacy—the specific action, if any, which the Government proposes to take and the measures, if any, which are to be implemented in order to alleviate the crisis facing the people of Galway and the west of Ireland as a result of recent and continuous flooding and storms; (6) Deputy Tom Kitt—the action being taken arising from the collapse of the off-shore bank, International Investments Limited, Gibraltar, in view of the heavy financial losses incurred by so many Irish investors, both from Northern Ireland and the Republic, in this bank; (7) Deputy O'Dea—the need for provision to alleviate the loss and hardship suffered by residents in the catchment area of the Mulcair River as a result of recent flooding; (8) Deputy Eric Byrne—the need to investigate the use by criminals of the 1993 tax amnesty as a money laundering device in view of recent media reports that an alleged criminal used the tax amnesty to declare £200,000 of unearned income; (9) Deputy Lynch—the need for increased services and resources to counsel male victims of rape, sexual assault and child sex abuse, and (10) Deputy Kirk—the very serious implications for motorists and industry and commerce of the present high cost of insurance premiums.
The matters raised by the following Deputies have been selected for discussion: Deputies Browne (Carlow- Kilkenny)., Noel Treacy, O'Donnell and Tom Kitt.
