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) Deputies Hugh Byrne and Kenneally — the dangers and fatalities arising from leisure crafting in Waterford Harbour; and the need for restrictions in the interest of public safety; (2) Deputy Dermot Ahern — the need for the Government to take over the handling of the case against BNFL in relation to THORP and to indemnify the four County Louth litigants in respect of their costs to date; (3) Deputy Shortall — the need for a high-level co-ordinated response to the drug problem in Dublin; (4) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the need to reimburse the Southern Health Board for the introduction of a new waste plan; and the implications of the cost of the plan, which is in excess of £1 million, for the provision of essential hospital services; (5) Deputy Michael Kitt — the need to put pressure on both the EU and the UN to provide assistance in Burundi; (6) Deputy Eric Byrne — the urgent need to provide access to a Methadone maintenance programme in all prisons and to enable drug abusers to continue the programme in the community following their release from prison; (7) Deputy Lynch — the need for school principals to be required to notify school attendance officers on a monthly basis of any suspensions or expulsions made and to expand the school attendance service nationally; (8) Deputy Haughey — the crisis in the accident and emergency departments and the shortage of beds in Beaumont and other Dublin hospitals, and the ongoing industrial action by nurses; (9) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the need to upgrade and develop Mallow racecourse; (10) Deputy Geoghegan-Quinn — the need for a co-ordinated accident and emergency plan for the Dublin area in the light of further planned industrial action by nurses scheduled for tomorrow; (11) Deputy O'Rourke — the need to outline the present and future situation regarding community employment for 1995; (12) Deputy O'Donoghue — the need to publish the report regarding the co-ordination of Garda, Customs and Naval Services efforts to combat trafficking of illegal drugs; (13) Deputy Quill — the need to consider the establishment of a drop-in information centre in Cork, similar in scope and function to ENFO in Dublin; (14) Deputy Joe Walsh — the recent closure of the Customs office in Castletownbere, County Cork, and (15) Deputy Tom Kitt — the need for the Government to take legal action at EU level in relation to the Sellafield plant in view of the High Court judgment last week.
The matters raised by the following Deputies have been selected for discussion:— Deputies Geoghegan-Quinn, O'Donoghue, O'Rourke, and Dermot Ahern.