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 Neville — the need to construct a classroom and toilets at Shountrade school, Adare, County Limerick; (2) Deputy Clune — the current crisis in Cork hospitals in relation to bed shortages resulting in patients having to spend the night on trolleys in corridors; (3) Deputy Seán Ryan — the need to discuss the implications of the decision taken by the staff of the day care nurseries in the greater Dublin area to take industrial action, given that they have not had a pay rise for the past ten years and the Eastern Health Board has refused to implement a Labour Court recommendation on their claim; (4) Deputy Jim Higgins — the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to use his discretion to grant asylum to a family from Burundi whose appeal has been turned down and who now face deportation; (5) Deputy Timmins — the need to provide funding for swimming pools in Wicklow town and Arklow; (6) Deputy Bradford — the future of the motor apprenticeship school at Davis College, Mallow, County Cork; (7) Deputy Gilmore — the threatened deportation from Ireland of a Burundian family who fled to Ireland as a result of racist and neo-Nazi harassment in Germany; (8) Deputy Richard Bruton — the need to make funds available to honour the Labour Court recommendations in respect of child care assistants in health board funded pre-school facilities.
The matters raised by Deputies Clune, Timmins, Jim Higgins and Gilmore have been selected for discussion.