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 Flaherty — the application from Dublin City University for funding towards the cost of developing sports facilities on the St. Clare lands; (2) Deputy Flanagan — the need for the Government to prepare a plan for the protection and restoration of the recently discovered Viking Fort of Dunrally in County Laois; (3) Deputy Frances Fitzgerald — the disturbing revelations regarding child care centres and the need for monitoring and inspection; (4) Deputy Lenihan — the issue of temporary accommodation for the provision of a multi-denominational school in the Lucan area of Dublin; (5) Deputy Keavency — the need for the retention of the current classroom assistant position in the class for 12 children with a moderate handicap in Scoil Iosagáin, Buncrana, County Donegal; (6) Deputy Flood — the policy of the Minister for Health in relation to youth homelessness in the Clondalkin area, Dublin 22, in view of the serious plight of three children from two separate families who are now homeless with no accommodation facilities, adequate family support services or counselling available to them; (7) Deputy de Valera — the urgent need for funding to be provided to Knockanean school, County Clare; (8) Deputy Kirk — the serious difficulties that have arisen as a result of the transfer of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth to the North-Eastern Health Board, and if the Minister will clarify the misunderstandings that have arisen as a result; (9) Deputy Callely — the issue of granting NGO status to International Orphan Aid; (10) Deputy Tom Kitt — the need to ensure a thorough investigation will take place into the issues raised by the "Prime Time" programme on RTE on 15 April 1997 relating to a person about whom details have been supplied; (11) Deputy O'Rourke — the need for the Minister for Social Welfare to outline the plans, if any, he has to take immediate action to assist Irish Life workers as he did with the former Irish Press and Dunnes Stores workers in view of the fact that 300 Irish Life staff have been on strike for ten weeks and their only form of assistance has been a union stipend of £30 a week; (12) Deputy Matt Brennan — the urgent need for improvement works to be carried out to St. Barbara's national school, Castlerock, Aclare, County Sligo; (13) Deputy Martin — the need to ensure the State services intervene in the case of a 15 year old girl who is homeless and without adequate care and about whom difficulties were revealed in The Examiner newspaper on Wednesday, 16 April 1997; (14) Deputy Tom Foxe — the reason students studying for a degree in nursing are expected to pay university fees when all other students are exempt from same; (15) Deputy Eoin Ryan — the need to provide the necessary funding to the Barrett Cheshire Home for an extension of its facilities in Herbert Road, Dublin 2.
The matters raised by Deputies Frances Fitzgerald, Lenihan, Keaveney and de Valera have been selected for discussion.