I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Deasy — the need to formulate a policy to assist owners of thatched commercial premises to enable them to retain or replace existing structures because of their heritage and cultural values; (2) Deputy Callely — the deteriorating situation in Scoil Fhursa and Scoil Íde, Cromcastle Green, Kilmore West, Dublin 5; the findings and recommendations of the recent departmental inspection; and the timescale governing the works to be undertaken in this regard; (3) Deputy Sargent — the concentration of the resources of the Department of the Environment on relatively non-hazardous packaging waste in view of the fact that regulations have not yet been made under sections 6 (2), 32 (2), 57 and 58 of the Waste Management Act, 1996, which deals with chemical and other hazardous waste; (4) Deputy Costello — the need to improve the casualty and out-patient facilities in the Mater Hospital; (5) Deputy Lawlor — the need for the Minister for Health, in respect of area 6 of the Eastern Health Board, to review the issue of residential places for the mentally handicapped, the serious decline in funding for community care and the need for funding to deal with the residential care waiting list; (6) Deputy Lenihan — the need for the Minister for the Environment to make provision for a public library at Lucan, County Dublin; (7) Deputy Killeen — the urgent need for the Minister for the Environment to ensure that the Burren-north Clare sanitary services application qualifies for EU Cohesion Funding; (8) Deputy Martin — the urgent need for the Minister for Education to fill the 23 visiting teacher posts for the children of the traveller community as advertised in June 1995 and to meet the Irish Traveller Movement to discuss the establishment of a traveller education unit within the Department; (9) Deputy Michael Kitt — to ask the Minister the present position on a Franco-Spanish proposal to send a 5,000 member international force to help bring assistance to over a million refugees in Zaire.
The matters raised by Deputies Sargent, Killeen, Callely and Martin have been selected for discussion.