I wish to advise-align 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 Quill — the action, if any, being taken in relation to the fish kills in the River Martin, a tributary of the River Lee, on Thursday, 13 June 1996, where in excess of 4,000 brown trout and young salmon were poisoned; the smaller fish kill on the Owenacurra River; and the action, if any, which has been taken to date in respect of the 74 fish kills which took place in 1995; Deputy Shortall — the problem of truck parking in residential areas; Deputy Séan Ryan — the safety of plastic tanks for the storage of heating oil and the regulations, if any, for the installation of such tanks; Deputy Flaherty — the urgent need for a classroom assistant for St. Patrick's national school, Drumcondra, Dublin 9; Deputy Briscoe — the need for special centres of detention for persons on remand; Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the progress made on science and technology issues in the light of the Travers task force; Deputy Frances Fitzgerald — the pollution problem and the recent fish kill in the River Dodder; Deputy Ó Cuív — the arrangements which the Minister for Education has made to ensure that secondary school education is made available in County Galway to female students who are entitled to the remote areas grant in view of the refusal to grant-aid pupils who wish to attend the only girls' boarding school in the county; Deputy Dukes — the forthcoming reductions in teaching staff in 300 primary schools; Deputy Deasy — the need to conduct a review of conditions at St. Mary's primary school, Dungarvan, County Waterford, with a view to having it classified as disadvantaged; Deputy O'Dea — the urgent need to introduce a system whereby movement of convicted paedophiles within this jurisdiction can be monitored; Deputy Tom Kitt — the need for the Minister for Education to state publicly that she will retain, for the purpose of building a post-primary school, the site owned by her Department at Scholarstown Road, Knocklyon, Dublin 16; Deputy O'Donoghue — the legal representation of public representatives at the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Beef Industry and the fees and expenses arising therefrom; Deputy de Valera — the need for Government action to establish a national conservatoire— Deputy Morley — the need to consider obliging owners of livestock marts to take out insurance or bonds to indemnify farmers against losses in view of the commercial failure and possible closure of Swinford Cattle Mart, County Mayo, and the consequential losses incurred by a large number of its farming customers; Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the need to provide additional places on the business studies degree course at Cork Regional Technical College; Deputy Foley — the need to increase the allocation to Tralee vocational education committee for special education needs from the 1,100 hours set for 1996-97 to the 4,000 hours allowed in the 1995-96 term; Deputy Broughan — the urgent need to protect the natural amenity of the East Mountain, Howth, County Dublin; Deputy Séan Kenny — the inordinate delay by Fingal County Council in making a special amenity area order for the high amenity area of the East Mountain, Howth, County Dublin, and whether the Minister can make this order.
The matters raised by Deputies de Valera, Quill, Batt O'Keeffe and Briscoe have been selected for discussion.
