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 problem of truck parking in residential areas;
(2) Deputy Seán Ryan — the safety of plastic tanks for the storage of heating oil and the regulations, if any, for the installation of such tanks;
(3) Deputy Flaherty — the urgent need for a classroom assistant for St. Partick's national school, Drumcondra, Dublin 9;
(4) Deputy Frances Fitzgerald — the pollution problem and the recent fish kill in the River Dodder;
(5) 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;
(6) Deputy Dukes — the forthcoming reductions in teaching staff in three hundred primary schools;
(7) 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;
(8) Deputy O'Dea — the urgent need to introduce a system whereby movement of convicted paedophiles within this jurisdiction can be monitored;
(9) 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;
(10) 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;
(11) Deputy Seán 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;
(12) Deputy O'Donoghue — the need to restrict access by sex offenders to employment where there is a possibility of contact with vulnerable young people;
(13) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the progress made on science and technology issues in the light of the Travers task force;
(14) Deputy Eoin Ryan — the increased problem of the anti-social behaviour of delinquent tenants in local authority housing and the serious hardship caused to other residents by the failure to act on this problem;
(15) Deputy Geoghegan-Quinn — the need to reconvene the expert group on the Blood Transfusion Service Board following the revelation in a media report that a consultant gynaecologist and a doctor treating donor X were never interviewed by the expert group;
(16) Deputy Jacob — the urgent need for official authorisation by the Department of Education of the sale and transfer of the old vocational school in Rathdrum, County Wicklow, by Wicklow Vocational Education Committee to Wicklow County Council in view of the fact that this matter, which has been unresolved for a number of years, is now widely perceived as a public scandal.
The matters raised by Deputies Frances Fitzgerald, Ó Cuív, Tom Kitt and O'Dea have been selected for discussion.