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 Upton — the need to ensure that the maximum possible number of organs for transplantation is made available; (2) Deputy Séamus Brennan — the proposal to issue a second national mobile 'phone licence to the private sector; (3) Deputy Eric Byrne — the urgent need to regularise the position of those illegal immigrants who have been in the State for five years or more, who have committed no offence other than being illegal immigrants and who have no criminal record in their countries of origin; (4) Deputy Kathleen Lynch — the urgent need for Ireland to declare a unilateral ban on the manufacture or assembly of landmines instruments of torture or their components; and to campaign in international fora for a worldwide ban on the manufacture, assembly, trade and use of such instruments; (5) Deputy Ó Cuív — the need to provide alternative housing for families in the south Galway area whose houses have been flooded for the last six weeks and are likely to be flooded for the foreseeable future; (6) Deputy Quill — the consultant's report on the knitwear division of Sunbeam Industries Limited; and the need for action to ensure the retention of jobs and long term viability arising out of that report; (7) Deputy Molloy — the viability of Bord na Móna's Europeat proposal; (8) Deputy O'Rourke — the need to prevent the closure of the Cancer Advisory Clinic at St. Vincent's Hospital, Athlone; (9) Deputy Hugh Byrne — the need to spread superlevy fines over a full year to alleviate hardship to farm families; (10) Deputy Shortall — the need for the urgent commencement of section 41 of the Road Traffic Act, 1994, in order to tackle the serious problem of joyriding; (11) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the problem of excess milk created by the EU superlevy; (12) Deputy Brendan Smith — the need to provide a substantial increase in funding to Cavan County Council for regional and county roads and for the reopening of Border roads; (13) Deputy O'Donnell — the urgent need for the reporting of allegations of child sexual abuse to the Garda Síochána; (14) Deputy O'Hanlon — the need to provide Members with information, particularly of a statistical nature which is available to Departments through their agencies, in response to parliamentary questions; (15) Deputy Michael Kitt — the need for the appointment of a remedial teacher to Mountbellew, Moylough, Cooloo and Briarfield national schools.
The matters raised by the following Deputies have been selected for discussion: Deputies O'Rourke, Quill, Ned O'Keeffe and Séamus Brennan.