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 Wall – the need to have the proposals of the Gleeson report on military service awards agreed in relation to personnel who retired before August 1990; (2) Deputy Flanagan – the anomalous situation wherein the one parent family payment is less advantageous to an applicant than the deserted wife's benefit which it replaced; (3) Deputy Lawlor – the restoration of the Asgard to full sail condition without alteration and the merits of this heritage preservation option as against alternative proposals; (4) Deputy Neville – the death by suicide in Mountjoy Prison on 16 October 1999; (5) Deputy Shortall – the need to address the serious discrepancy in the new drugs refund scheme where full-time students aged between 23 and 25 years old are subject to the individual limit of £42 per month regardless of their income; (6) Deputy O'Shea – the need to provide permanent funding for the Waterford Centre for Independent Living; (7) Deputy Michael D. Higgins – the need to devise a development strategy for the Great Southern Hotel Group; (8) Deputy Michael Kitt – the allocation of funds from the sports capital programme for Tuam stadium in County Galway; (9) Deputy Jim Higgins – the need to consider a financial rescue package for farmers in the west and northwest who suffered financial losses and hardship following the collapse of a company (details supplied); (10) Deputy Farrelly – the need to provide sufficient remedial teachers in primary schools in County Meath.
The matters raised by Deputies Wall, Flanagan, Neville and Michael Kitt have been selected for discussion.