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 Michael Kitt — the need for the appointment of a remedial teacher to Mountbellew, Moylough, Cooloo and Briarfield national schools. (2) Deputy Upton — the need to ensure that the maximum possible number of organs for transplantation are made available in this country; (3) 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; (4) 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; (5) 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. (6) Deputy 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; (7) Deputy Molloy — the need for assistance under the emergency aid scheme for the skipper and crew of the MFV Miraculous II; (8) Deputy Dermot Ahern — the proposed closure of Drogheda Community Workship at Greenhills, Drogheda, County Louth; (9) Deputy Sargent — the use of the £25 million equity for TEAM Aer Lingus; and the need to increase the market share of TEAM and to instil confidence in the workforce at TEAM: (10) Deputy Michael McDowell — the elimination, through increases in home loan interest rates, of the improvement in take-home pay arising from the budget; (11) Deputy Power — the future of the Army School of Music; (12) Deputy O'Malley — the approval under the provisions of the Mergers, Takeovers and Monopolies Acts of the change in ownership of the Goodman Group. (13) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the situation in Cork maternity hospitals where women who miscarry share the same ward with those who have healthy children born to them, causing great trauma and stress and (14) Deputy Cullen — the Government's approach to the potential currency crisis in view of the serious increase in mortgage interest rates, the general increase in interest rates and the decrease in the value of the Irish punt within the ERM.
The matters raised by Deputies Michael McDowell, Upton, Batt O'Keeffe and Power have been selected for discussions.