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 Deenihan — the need to provide necessary finance as a matter of urgency for additional accommodation at Kilconly national school, Ballybunion, County Kerry, in view of the serious overcrowding in the school; (2) Deputy Creed — the need to outline the rationale behind the decision to relocate certain functions of the Department of Agriculture and Food from Hibernian House, South Mall, Cork to Clonakilty; (3) Deputy Brian Lenihan — the issue of special educational needs for autistic children and, in particular, the future of Beechpark Special School, Stillorgan, County Dublin; (4) Deputy McCormack — the proposed erection of a transmission mast by Esat Digifone at a site in a Garda station in Maam, County Galway, in close proximity to a national school and the concern this is causing for the parents, teachers and pupils in the area; (6) Deputy Timmins — the failure of the Government to join Partnership for Peace; (7) Deputy Naughten — the need to provide additional funding for voluntary youth organisations; (8) Deputy Finucane — the need to outline the attempts to find replacement industries for both Newcastle West and Kilmallock, following the closure on 15 December 1995 of Neodata with the loss of 107 jobs; (9) Deputy De Rossa — the need to reverse the decision to impose a 6.25 reduction in the teacher allocation to Coláiste Eoin, Finglas, especially in the light of the increase in pupil intake this year and the consequences of the reduction for education in the Finglas area; (10) Deputy Moloney — the need to designate Portlaoise as a centre for further decentralisation of Government offices; (11) Deputy Upton — the need to address the serious defects in the science and technology programme for the third level sector; (12) Deputy O'Shea — the need to review the national school capitation system so that it does not discriminate against schools where special needs children are fully integrated into the mainstream school system; (14) Deputy Breeda Moynihan-Cronin — the need to retain a third assistant teacher at Ballyferriter national school, County Kerry; (15) Deputy McGinley — the serious employment situation in the north west, especially in County Donegal, when according to the IDA Annual Report for 1997 less than 2 per cent of overall jobs created in IDA-associated industries went to the region; (16) Deputy Gregory — the issues raised in articles in Sunday newspapers arising from the purchase of a property in November 1994 by the present Garda Commissioner; and (17) Deputy Gerard Reynolds — the need to ensure that the Department of Education and Science does not reduce by one the number of teachers at Scoil na Maighdine Muire, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim.
The matters raised by Deputies McCormack, Naughten, De Rossa and O'Shea have been selected for discussion.