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 Hayes – the need for the Minister for Education and Science to provide additional educational facilities for St. Killian's senior school, Kingswood, Tallaght; (2) Deputy Creed – the urgent need for the Department of Education and Science to sanction the proposed extension to St. Mary's secondary school, Macroom; (3) Deputy Lawlor – the provision of a permanent library for Lucan now that South Dublin County Council has lodged a full set of revised proposals and has formally expressed its satisfaction with the favourable rental terms for the proposed premises at Esker shopping centre; (4) Deputy Broughan – the urgent need to amend the guidelines relating to the national lottery funded capital programme to allow for full funding of projects in deprived urban areas; (5) Deputy Sargent – the need for the Minister for Health and Children to immediately end the practice of adding fluoride to the water supply; (6) Deputy Wall – the need for the Minister for the Environment and Local Government to provide extra funding to Kildare County Council to repair many roads in the county; (7) Deputy Fleming – the proposal to reduce the number of trains stopping at Portlaoise railway station each weekday evening en route from Heuston station; (8) Deputy Shatter – the Government's commitment to construct and open Knocklyon post primary school by September 1998; (9) Deputy Ring – the need for the Minister for Agriculture and Food to confirm why a person (details supplied) has not received his cattle headage cheque for 1998; (10) Deputy Clune – the need for more investment in Cork's city and suburban bus routes; (11) Deputy Gormley – the need for more traffic calming measures in Dublin South East; (12) Deputy Flanagan – the need to discuss the adverse consequences for Portlaoise of a proposed change by Iarnród Éireann in train timetables; (13) Deputy Owen – the need to discuss the long delay and backlog in the administration of driving tests; (14) Deputy Moynihan-Cronin – the need for the Government to investigate and address the number of drug addicts who have been cut-off from their supply as a result of the introduction of the methadone protocol; (15) Deputy Penrose – the need to introduce a programme of action to reduce the number of farm accidents, particularly those which have resulted in child fatalities on farms.
The matters raised by Deputies Moynihan-Cronin, Wall, Owen and Shatter have been selected for discussion.