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: Deputy Hugh Byrne — the need for an air ambulance with night flying equipment on the east coast; 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; Deputy O'Dea — the need to remove the barriers which impede victims of child sexual abuse who wish to take civil actions for damages; Deputy Shortall — the need to extend the preferential terms for the Telecom Phonewatch medi system to pensioners in urban areas; Deputy Ellis — the need to upgrade and refurbish St. Joseph's national school, Killenummery, Dromahair, County Leitrim; Deputy Frances Fitzgerald — the discovery of 1,500 adoption files in the National Archives; Deputy Ring — the need to provide funding for the essential electrical work for St. Bríd's national school, Pavilion Road, Castlebar, County Mayo; Deputy Quill — the need to provide support to the computer industry in the event of job shedding in this industry and in other related supply and service industries in view of the announcement by Apple Computer in Cork city of a two day work stoppage; Deputy Martin — the plans the Minister for Enterprise and Employment has to consolidate and develop the electronics industry in County Cork and in particular the plans he has to assist the Mitsumi Electronics firm in Mallow, County Cork, and the Apple computer plant in Cork city; Deputy Flanagan — the need for the Government to register a formal condemnation of the Chinese military action off the coast of Taiwan; Deputy Keogh — the need to initiate an independent inquiry into the child sex abuse cases in County Wexford and to ensure that the report of such an inquiry would be published; Deputies O'Rourke, Ned O'Keeffe and Michael Ahern — the action, if any, the Minister for Enterprise and Employment proposes to take to avert job losses at the Mitsumi Ireland company, Mallow, County Cork; Deputy Lawlor — the serious situation existing at the Carline Project in north Clondalkin, Dublin 22, in view of the referral there of large numbers of persons under 15 years of age and the need to provide adequate funding for the project; Deputy Leonard — the need for the provision of factory space in Border regions. Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the action the Minister for Justice proposes to take to tackle the drugs problem in Cork in view of the serious import of the recent RTE "Prime Time" programme on this issue.
The matters raised by Deputies Ellis, O'Dea, Hugh Byrne and Keogh have been selected for discussion.