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 Shortall — the need to tackle illegal drug dealers by establishing a special unit involving the Garda Síochána, the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Social Welfare; (2) Deputy Hugh Byrne — the policy implications for the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry arising from the cessation of research, which was specifically dedicated to organic farming, at the State's only research facility for organic farming; (3) Deputy Ferris — the need to include the condition known as Post Polio Syndrome or Late Effects of Polio in the long-term illness scheme administered by the Department of Health and health boards; (4) Deputy Broughan — the need to re-examine the provision of resources for orthodontic dental care on the northside of Dublin; (5) Deputy Lynch — the effects on the work of FÁS community employment schemes of recent changes in the eligibility criteria for such schemes with particular reference to the many arts-based schemes currently in operation and the effects on the employment prospects of those working in the arts; (6) Deputy Keogh — the action the Minister for Education will take to bring about a resolution of the dispute at Trinity College, Dublin, in view of the threat to examinations; (7) Deputy O'Leary — the delay in advertising for a contractor to construct the new community school at Rathmore, County Kerry, and the urgent need to commence and complete this project at an early date; (8) Deputy Michael Kitt — the question of allocating some of the teaching posts which have been made available by falling pupil and teacher numbers in primary schools to improve the pupil-teacher ratio and to reduce class size; (9) Deputy Gregory — the refusal of the Department of Education to sanction the commencement in 1996 of the extension to St. Paul's Secondary School, North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7 and the unacceptable conditions which exist as a result; (10) Deputy O'Rourke — the need to give full and urgent consideration to funding for the north Westmeath group water scheme; (11) Deputy Geoghegan-Quinn — the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a penicillin-resistant bacteria in the isolation units of the new bone marrow transplant unit at St. James' Hospital, Dublin, and the need to reassure the public in this regard and (12) Deputy Joe Walsh — the need for the Minister for Education to have arrangements made for an architect to visit a school, details supplied, in County Cork so that an assessment can be made of the dangerous condition of the school and an immediate programme of necessary improvements can be put in train.
The matters raised by Deputies Ferris, Geoghegan-Quinn, O'Rourke and O'Leary have been selected for discussion.