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 Shatter – the need to keep the national disease surveillance centre in Dublin rather than transfer it to Tullamore; (2) Deputy Ulick Burke – the need to approve funding for the extension and refurbishment and provision of off-road parking at Kiltiernan national school, County Galway; (3) Deputy Neville – the need for proper accommodation at the primary school at Kilfinane, County Limerick; (4) Deputy Ring – the need to review the fees paid to those employed by the health boards who derive their incomes from fees for registrations and issuing certificates; (5) Deputy Perry – the need for a planned property programme to be put in place for the six Border counties and in particular the Sligo-Leitrim area; (6) Deputy Upton – the urgent need for the Minister for Health and Children to respond to new figures which show that 2,233 people suffered food poisoning in the Eastern Health Board area over the past year; (7) Deputy Flanagan – the need to extend the area development management scheme to County Laois, the only county in the Border, midlands and western regions without such designation; (8) Deputy Michael Kitt – the question of amending legislation in relation to the assessment of income from higher education grants, particularly that of persons other than the parents of the students involved.
The matters raised by Deputies Perry, Shatter, Upton and Flanagan have been selected for discussion.