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 Stanton — the need to provide funding to build a new school in Cobh, County Cork to accommodate Gaelscoil Sheáin Uí Éigeartaigh in light of the condition of the present school; (2) Deputy Deenihan — the necessity to review the level of higher education maintenance grants in view of increasing costs and the resulting hardship for students from lower income families; (3) Deputy Gerard Reynolds — the proposals, if any, the Minister for the Environment and Local Government has to reduce the acreage of land for which planning permission is required when planting trees; (4) Deputy Deasy — the need to protect wildlife habitats in accordance with European Union directives; (5) Deputy Perry — the necessity for additional funding to be made available for Sligo Regional Airport; (6) Deputy Creed — the need to ensure that those who are engaged in full time farming and on low incomes will not have their entitlement to social welfare payments denied on the grounds of being unavailable or not genuinely seeking work; (7) Deputy Flanagan — the recent significant archaeological excavation at Croghan Hill, Tullamore, County Offaly; (8) Deputy Broughan — the urgent need to regulate late night and all night trading in residential areas such as at Donaghmede Shopping Centre, Dublin 13; (9) Deputy Gay Mitchell — the need to co-ordinate an overall response in a comprehensive and sensitive way to the needs of immigrants and the needs of the host community so as to defuse potential racial tensions; (10) Deputy Howlin — the method to be employed to nominate the new members to the European Committee of the Regions.
The matters raised by Deputies Howlin, Creed, Deasy and Stanton have been selected for discussion: