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 Lawlor – the extensive waiting list within the Dublin area for residential places for disabled persons; (2) Deputy Bradford – the need to increase the number of towns in County Cork in the town renewal scheme; (3) Deputy Ring – the position of the proposed extension of Carrowkennedy national school, Westport, County Mayo; (4) Deputy Broughan – the need to avoid cutbacks in the community employment programme without prior consultation with the social partners; (5) Deputy Ulick Burke – the works to be undertaken by the Office of Public Works on the three minor drainage schemes in County Galway; (6) Deputy Stanton – the urgent need to put resources in place to enable urgent remedial work to be carried out in Cobh in view of the recent landslide; (7) Deputy Gil more – the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied to the Department of Health and Children for reimbursment of hospital expenses; (8) Deputy Shatter – the extent and effect of nursing shortages and the failure to provide the up to date information on nursing shortages; (9) Deputy Wall – the urgent need for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to meet with the Athy Forum in the wake of another factory closure which further compounds the grave unemployment problem in south Kildare; (10) Deputy Shortall – in the light of new information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act the urgent need for the Taoiseach to give a full account of the circumstances which led him to reject the advice of both the Revenue Commissioners and his Departmental officials in introducing section 19 of the Finance Act, 1994 and in deciding that statute law should be amended for the benefit on one individual.
The matters raised by Deputies Gilmore, Shatter, Stanton and Ring have been selected for discussion.