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 Ring — when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, who is in the secondary stage of cancer, will be called for treatment to St. Luke's Hospital, Dublin, considering the severe pain being suffered; (2) Deputy Deenihan — the provision of the necessary funding to enable stage four of the Listowel regional water scheme to go ahead; (3) Deputy Healy-Rae — the need to give a derogation from the licensing regulations to the small dumping sites at Killarney, Milltown, Kenmare and Cahirciveen; (4) Deputy Sheehan — the need to consider allocating a subsidy payable to fishermen on a short-term basis due to the serious collapse in the price paid to Irish fishermen along the south-western seaboard for herrings netted in the Celtic Sea; (5) Deputy Lawlor — the proposals for a £27 million educational complex at Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 being planned by the Higher Education Authority in the context of the urgent need for a site to accommodate the Blanchardstown Regional Technical College project already sanctioned; (6) Deputy Kirk — the need to make urgent representations to the Northern Ireland Office in relation to hilltop lookout posts dotted across south Armagh, with a view to having them dismantled and removed in light of the current ceasefire and ongoing peace talks; (7) Deputy Olivia Mitchell — to obtain a modal switch from private to public transport, given the huge and continuing growth in private car ownership and traffic congestion in the Dublin area; (8) Deputy Shatter — that consideration be given to the initiatives required to ensure that those who act recklessly or negligently and endanger the life or health of others in violation of their public duty be subject to the full rigours of the law; (9) Deputy Durkan — the need for the State to reiterate its abhorrence at the continued use of the death penalty by various authorities throughout the world; (10) Deputy Stagg — the contamination of drinking water by sewage in the town of Naas; (11) Deputy Gilmore — the arrangements for a meeting between the Minister of State and the Sellafield case litigants arising from commitments given during Private Members' time in the House on Tuesday, 14 October 1997.
The matters raised by Deputies Sheehan, Gilmore, Deenihan and Shatter have been selected for discussion.