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 Browne (Wexford) — the need for compensation for the residents of King Street, Wexford, for the damage caused to their property during the recent flooding; (2) Deputy Dermot Ahern — the recent media reports concerning Louth County Hospital; Dundalk. (3) Deputy Ring — the need to provide school transport for persons (details supplied) attending Lacken Cross School, County Mayo; (4) Deputy McDaid — the proposed closure of the Information Technology Centre, Letterkenny, County Donegal; (5) An Teachta Éamon Ó Cuív — an gá atá ann go gcuirfear ar ceal na leasuithe a rinneadh ar na coinníollacha a bhaineann le Scéim Feabhsúcháin Thithe na Roinne Ealaíon, Cultúir agus Gaeltachta le feidhm ón 1 ú Eanáir, 1996; (6) Deputy Keogh — the circumstances surrounding the award of the advertising contract for the Government divorce campaign; (7) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the effect of the lack of public indemnity insurance on work experience for transition and PLC students in community and comprehensive schools; (8) Deputy O'Donoghue — the circumstances surrounding the robbery last weekend of the Securicor premises in Waterford and the views of the Minister for Justice on the statement made on behalf of an organisation (details supplied) regarding the competence of the Minister for Justice; (9) Deputy Davern — the alleviation of the problems caused by the recent flooding to the people of Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary; (10) Deputy O'Dea — the need to revise the system of allocation of the proceeds of the national lottery and to ensure that an adequate proportion of such funding is directed towards sport; (11) Deputy Frances Fitzgerald — the findings of a recent television programme (details supplied) on the ill-treatment of children in orphanages in China; (12) Deputy Cullen — the decision to downgrade the South East Regional Office of the IDA and to amalgamate the south east and south west regions with a headquarters in Cork; (13) Deputy Molloy — the difficulties caused for a person (details supplied) in County Galway who has had to abandon his university studies as a result of an anomaly arising from changes in the higher education grants scheme in 1993; (14) Deputy Hugh Byrne — problems caused by the recent flooding in the south-east; and (15) Deputy Crowley — the reason driving testers were not made available to the Mallow Test Centre for 14 weeks in 1995; the waiting list as a result of this situation; and the reason driving tests are available on demand in Border areas. The matters raised by the following Deputies have been selected for discussion Deputies Davern, Hugh Byrne, Dermot Ahern and Keogh.
