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 Lawlor — the need to address the question of the availibility of post-primary school places in the Lucan area of County Dublin; (2) Deputy O'Dea — the need to remove the barriers which impede victims of child sexual abuse who wish to take civil actions for damages; (3) Deputy Hugh Byrne — the need for compensation for the crews of fishing trawlers which have been decommissioned; (4) Deputy Lynch — the need to standardise hourly wage rates for home helps in all health board areas; (5) Deputy Shortall — the need to extend the preferential terms for the Telecom Phonewatch Medi System to pensioners in urban areas; (6) Deputy Frances Fitzgerald — the implications for sports funding of recent events at the FAI; (7) Deputy Eric Byrne — the need for the necessary resources to be made available to obviate the need for water throttling and the necessity for an adequate and reliable water supply for all areas of Dublin; (8) Deputy Geoghegan-Quinn — the action the Minister for Health intends to take to alleviate the crisis in accident and emergency departments in hospitals following reports that 11 patients over 70 years of age were kept overnight on trolleys at University College Hospital, Galway, on 14 February 1996; (9) Deputy Ellis — the need to upgrade and refurbish St. Joseph's national school, Killenummery, Dromahair, County Leitrim; (10) Deputy Leonard — the serious situation which has developed in the pig industry resulting in loss of employment; (11) Deputy Noel Davern — the need for the Minister for Education to fund the building of accommodation in Clonmel High School, County Tipperary, in view of the serious overcrowding there; (12) Deputy Mitchael Kitt — the provision of services for mentally handicapped children and adults in the Ballinasloe area of County Galway; (13) Deputy Michael Smith — the need for a clear set of priorities and objectives and for a participative approach in proposals for the reorganisation of the Defence Forces and the question of barrack closures; (14) Deputy Ó Cuív — the need to make representations to the British Government to grant compassionate parole to a prisoner who wishes to attend his mother's funeral and the need for a prisoner (details supplied) to be transferred to this jurisdiction for medical reasons; (15) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the need to implement and make applicable to all health boards the recommendations of the report into the Woburn House nursing home; (16) Deputy Keogh — the limits prescribed by current legislation on charitable lotteries; (17) Deputy Theresa Ahearn — the need for funding for the Christian Brothers' High School in Clonmel, County Tipperary, to alleviate problems caused by a serious shortage of student places; (18) Deputy Alan Shatter — the need for the European Union to agree a course of action in relation to the peace process in the Middle East and recent violence in Israel.
The matters raised by Deputies Ó Cuív, Batt O'Keeffe, Davern and Leonard have been selected for discussion.