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) Deputies Penrose and Ferris — the failure of the Government to fund small abattoirs to comply with EU Council Directives; (2) Deputy Neville — the circumstances giving rise to the non prosecution in the courts of a case involving a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of a person from Knocklong, County Limerick, outside Tipperary town; (3) Deputy Gay Mitchell — the subject matter of parliamentary question No. 768 to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform about the harassment of a couple (details supplied) in Dublin 12; (4) Deputy Connaughton — the need for the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands to place a one year moratorium on the implementation of the special areas of conservation scheme to allow for more substantial negotiations to take place with bog owners who will be denied a lifelong right to cut their own supply of turf from their own bogs this year; (5) Deputy Ring — the need to retain the post of child care assistant for St. Brid's national school, Pavilion Road, Castlebar, County Mayo, as the non-retention of this post will result in the closure of one class at the school; (6) Deputy Deasy — the necessity for a sewerage scheme for the village of Cheekpoint in County Waterford; (7) Deputy Sheehan — the need to authorise approval to Cork County Council to employ consulting engineers to design suitable sewerage schemes for Schull and Baltimore, County Cork; (8) Deputy Crawford — the serious consequences of the impending closure of IJM in Monaghan with the potential loss of more than 130 jobs; (9) Deputy Stanton — the urgent need to make resources available to shorten waiting lists, given that there are more than 8,000 children awaiting assessment or treatment at the orthodontic clinic in St. Finbarr's Hospital, Cork; (10) Deputy Flanagan — the need to ensure refurbishment works on Ferbane electricity generating station can commence as soon as possible in the light of apparent delays; (11) Deputy McManus — the reply by the Minister for Health and Children to Question No. 52 of January 29 and reports that he intends to withhold from publication part of the research commissioned from the department of sociology, Trinity College, by the previous Government into the background to crisis pregnancies and abortion.
The matters raised by Deputies Crawford, Flanagan, Penrose and Ferris and Sheehan have been selected for discussion.