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 Moffatt — the need for the Minister for the Marine to acquire the portion of the River Moy at Foxford, County Mayo, which is currently for sale; (2) Deputy Lawlor — the crisis in the maintenance of local authority housing in Dublin in advance of the handover of housing stock to the Dublin county councils which is scheduled for January 1997; (3) Deputy Martin — the need to provide funding for the urgently required extension to Our Lady of Lourdes national school, Ballinlough, Cork, in view of the current dilapidated conditions and concern for the health and safety of the children; (4) Deputy Gallagher (Laoighis-Offaly)— the urgent need to provide a new Garda station for Tullamore, County Offaly, in view of the risk to the health and safety of the Garda Síochána and the public arising from the condition of the existing station; (5) Deputy Ó Cuív — an gá atá ann go leagfar píopa deich n-orlach ón Spidéal go Ros a Mhíl, le chinntiú go mbeidh soláthar ceart uisce sa gceantar seo; (6) Deputy Costello — the need to provide statutory protection for listed buildings; (7) Deputy Sargent — the failure to include in the draft text for the Intergovernmental Conference a fundamental right for EU citizens to a clean and healthy environment and the failure to treat sustainable development as a paramount objective of the EU during the Irish Presidency; (8) Deputy McGinley — the need to expedite the application by Donegal County Council to have the proposed sewerage schemes for Gweedore, Burtonport and Ardara grouped together as Gaeltacht coastal schemes for EU Cohesion Funding; (9) Deputy Brendan Smith — the need to provide an additional milk quota to the Border region under the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; (10) Deputy McCormack — the regulations governing the eligibility of unemployed people to participate in community employment schemes; (11) Deputy Andrews — the comments made by a Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach during a recent visit to the United States of America regarding the responsibility of the then British authorities for the 1845 to 1848 Famine; the commemoration of the Famine on its 150th anniversary; and the question of erecting a monument in Dublin to the victims of the Famine.
The matters raised by Deputies Andrews, Lawlor, Ó Cuív and Brendan Smith have been selected for discussion.