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 Keaveney — the need to review the student summer job scheme with a view to reintroducing the extra payment to participants whose parents are social welfare recipients, making a general increase in payments for participants on the scheme and opening up the scheme to those who have completed the leaving certificate examination; (2) Deputy Ring — the need to resolve the school transport problem at Newport, County Mayo, by maintaining the current level of service to Westport; (3) Deputy Shor-tall — 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; (4) 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; (5) Deputy Broughan — the need to re-examine the provision of resources for orthodontic dental care on the north side of Dublin; (6) 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; (7) Deputy Joe Walsh — the need for the Minister for Education to have arrangements made for an architect to visit a school 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; (8) Deputy Cullen — public concern regarding the proposed location of the new sewage treatment plant at Tramore, County Waterford, and the insistence of the Department of the Environment on the location despite deep concern expressed by the Department of the Marine; (9) Deputy O'Dea — the need for a practical response to the difficulties and dangers facing people in residential care; (10) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the danger to staff in University Hospital, Cork, from radiation in the cancer treatment unit and the action the Minister for Health proposes to take in this regard; (11) Deputy Browne (Wexford)— the finding, in a bog in Roscommon, of leaving certificate engineering examination material from Kilmuckridge vocational school, County Wexford; (12) Deputy Frances Fitzgerald — the standard of safety at public concerts following the recent tragic death at the Point Depot, Dublin; (13) Deputy Martin — the reason practical work submitted by students from Kilmuckridge school, County Wexford, for the 1996 leaving certificate examinations was found in County Roscommon; (14) Deputy McDaid — the situation regarding four dangerous derelict sites in the village of Manorcunningham, County Donegal; (15) Deputy Keogh — the discovery of completed practical work for eight leaving certificate students near a railway level crossing in Ballymurray, County Roscommon, and the action the Minister for Education is taking to allay doubts about the systems for ensuring that practical work reaches the proper destination; (16) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the need to address the problem being experienced by the Irish County Houses and Restaurants Association in recruiting staff; (17) Deputy Ellis — the delay in the provision of sewerage schemes for the villages of Dromod, Drumsna and Jamestown, County Leitrim; (18) Deputy Geoghegan-Quinn — the action the Minister for Health proposes to take to avert major industrial action in hospitals around the country due to the threatened nurses dispute; (19) Deputies O'Rourke, Dermot Ahern and Kirk — the need for the Minister for Enterprise and Employment to take steps, through the task force on industry adjustment, to assist Harris Industries in Dundalk, County Louth, which has just announced layoffs, and the need to clarify the situation in Keytronic Europe, also in Dundalk; (20) Deputy Killeen — the circumstances which led to the award of a contract for an executive jet to service the Government for the duration of the EU Presidency to a UK company, Hunting Aviation, which neither owns nor operates an executive jet, and the need to ensure that Irish companies benefit from the EU Presidency.
The matters raised by Deputies Frances Fitzgerald, Martin, Keogh, O'Rourke, Dermot Ahern and Kirk have been selected for discussion.