I wish to advise the House on 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 Broughan — the urgent need to protect the natural amenity of the East Mountain, Howth, County Dublin; (4) Deputy O'Donoghue — the State's pathology service; (5) Deputy 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; (6) Deputy Lawlor — the provision of a 50 metre swimming pool, in view of the success of Ms Michelle Smith at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and the availability of a site at the town centre development in Clondalkin, Dublin, which, if developed, could provide a high quality facility for future Olympic competitors; (7) Deputy O'Rourke — the failure to give effect to the change announced in the 1996 budget in relation to the retention of medical cards by the long-term unemployed who take up employment; (8) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the failure to make progress on the provision of readaptation aid for Irish Steel; (9) Deputy Leonard — the financial implications for the wood industry and furniture manufacturers as a result of the ministerial order introducing licensing under the Environmental Protection Act, 1992; (10) Deputy Tom Kitt — the Government's position in relation to the investigative report by Action from Ireland of 24 July which links Irish companies with the international arms trade and military industry; (11) Deputy de Valera — the possible non-appointment of remedial teachers to schools in County Clare for September 1996; (12) Deputy Gallagher (Laoighis-Offaly)— the need for the Government, while it holds the Presidency of the EU, to intervene to prevent the situation in Burundi from deteriorating into a humanitarian disaster; (13) 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.
The matters raised by Deputies Tom Kitt, O'Rourke, Lawlor and de Valera have been selected for discussion.