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 Quill — the action, if any, intended to avert the proposed cancellation of EU funding for visitor centres in view of the imminent decision on the part of the EU in respect of moneys for such centres; (2) Deputy Seán Ryan — the effects of the phasing out of duty free in 1999 and the need for the Government to reactivate this issue within the EU; (3) Deputy Hugh Byrne — the urgent need for remedial action in view of the coastal erosion at Cullenstown, County Wexford; (4) Deputy Ó Cuív — the need to ensure that alternative training and employment is obtained for the workers who were laid off recently from the Farah plant in Galway and that a special task force be set up to oversee this work; (5) Deputy Sargent — the need to meet Fingal County Council and various representative bodies to establish a properly resourced harbour authority for Skerries and Balbriggan prior to the vesting of the two harbours in Fingal County Council; (6) Deputy Shortall — the need to put the home help service on a proper footing to ensure standardisation of service and rates of pay; (7) Deputy Raphael P. Burke — the need for a total rethink by the Government of its decision to construct a refuse burning incineratorpower station in Fingal, County Dublin; (8) Deputy Tom Foxe — the matter of REP scheme agents and their qualifications; (9) Deputy Lawlor — the need to clarify the position regarding drug addiction treatment programmes by the Eastern Health Board in the Blakestown and Mountview areas of Dublin 15; (10) Deputy Ring — the need to instruct the Western Health Board to appoint a dentist for the Belmullet area, County Mayo, either in a temporary or permanent capacity, in view of the delays in dental treatment for young people in the area; (11) Deputy Kirk — the threatened strike at the Sacred Heart school, Sunnyside, Drogheda and the implications for the 600 pupils attending the school; (12) Deputy Michael McDowell — the administrative chaos in the Patents Office regarding the implementation of the Trade Marks Act, 1996; (13) Deputy Callely — the need to extend the recently announced package of incentives for job creation outside the Dublin area to Dublin and in particular to areas of high unemployment in Dublin.
The matters raised by the following Deputies have been selected for discussion: Deputy Lawlor, Deputy Kirk, Deputy Michael McDowell and Deputy Hugh Byrne.