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 Tom Foxe — the reason the Department of Health did not respond to the request from the Western Health Board for the provision of extra bed space at Roscommon County Hospital; (2) Deputy Geoghegan-Quinn — the refusal by the Tribunal of Inquiry into the hepatitis C scandal to grant legal representation to transfusion, Kidney and haemophilia victims; (3) Deputies Kirk and Michael Kitt — the need to avail of the opportunity of the upcoming World Trade Organisation meeting in Singapore to highlight the importance of food security for countries of the majority world and to work towards practical measures to achieve it; (4) Deputy Ring — the need for the Minister for Health to intervene to prevent the reduction in the hours worked by home help staff in County Mayo for budgetary reasons rather than medical ones as this service is vital to the elderly; (5) Deputy Seán Ryan — the future of the vegetable industry in view of the current levels of importation; (6) Deputy Lawlor — the failure of the Government to bring forward legislation on the capping of charity lottery prizes before the end of 1995, the likelihood of the revised deadline of early 1997 being met and the consequent effect on the fund-raising capacities of major charitable organisations; (7) Deputy Brendan Smith — the need to confer full-time status on the Cavan Education Centre; (8) Deputy Martin — the need to allocate funds to Ballintemple national school, Crab Lane, Cork, to ensure the commencement of an extension to the school, as public liability insurance will be withdrawn in January 1997 unless sanction is received; (9) Deputy Browne (Wexford)— the urgent need for extra classroom accommodation for St. Margaret's national school, Curracloe, County Wexford; (10) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the action which the Minister for Health proposes to take to alleviate the problems experienced in the accident and emergency unit of University College Hospital, Cork, in view of the fact that this unit had to close recently due to the lack of beds; (11) Deputy Ó Cuív — de bharr an eolais mhí-chruinn a tugadh d'oileánaigh i bhfógraí poiblí agus ar na cártaí vótaíochta, an gá atá ann go gcinnteoidh an tAire Comhshaoil go n-osclófar na bothanna vótálá ar na hoileáin ar an Déardaoin an 28ú Samhain, 1996, le cinntiú go mbeidh deis ag Oileánaigh vótáil ar an lá a fógraíodh; (12) Deputy Keogh — the growing problem of traffic congestion in Dublin and the urgent need for a strategic traffic management plan; (13) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the proposed closure of the Convent of Mercy post primary school, Buttevant, County Cork; (14) Deputy Broughan — the urgent need to provide capital funding in the 1997 budget for the second phase of the Baldoyle flood relief scheme, Dublin 13.
The matters raised by Deputies Tom Foxe, Keogh, Ned O'Keeffe and Séamus Kirk and Michael P. Kitt have been selected for discussion.