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 Foley — the need to increase the allocation of 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; (4) 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; (5) 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 has been unresolved for a number of years and now widely perceived as a public scandal; (6) Deputy Broughan — the urgent need to protect the natural amenity of the East Mountain, Howth, County Dublin; (7) Deputy McGrath — the serious concerns of parents and teachers regarding the threatened reductions in teaching staff in three hundred primary schools; (8) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the need for ministerial intervention in view of the health and environmental dangers and the decrease in property values as a result of the plans by the ESB to erect a pylon from Aghada to Rafeen in Cork Harbour as outlined by the Cork Harbour Anti-Pylon Group; (9) Deputy Dan Wallace — the urgent need to proceed with the building of Glanmire Community College in Cork; (10) Deputy Davern — the refusal of the Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, to fund the Heritage-Excel project in Tipperary town; (11) Deputy Tom Foxe — the possibility of the River Suck valley being included in the third tier (extremely severely handicapped) category of the designation of less favoured areas; (12) Deputy Michael P. Kitt — the need for the Minister for the Environment to provide funding for multilingual signs for driving on the left hand side of the road in view of the number of accidents involving visiting tourists; (13) Deputy Brendan Smith — the need to improve the industrial infrastructure of the Border region to attract inward investment; (14) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the urgent need to provide a psychologist and psychiatrist for adolescents at University Hospital, Cork, in view of the fact that a teenage girl cannot obtain appropriate treatment in the hospital; (15) Deputy Michael Ahern — the failure of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry, to remove the serious inequity occasioned by the non-inclusion of peas for dehydration for area aid which threatens the continued growth and development of a company (details supplied) in County Cork; (16) Deputy de Valera — the need to assist the James Joyce Centre to cater further for the growing international interest in the author and his work in view of the cultural and tourism benefits which would accrue; (17) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív — the policy of the Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications, on the social and economic importance of access for peripheral regions to efficient and competitive telecommunications services
The matters raised by Deputies Davern, Foley, Jacob and Tom Foxe have been selected for discussion.