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 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; (2) Deputy Kenny – the issue of school facilities at St. Anthony's special school, Castlebar, County Mayo; (3) Deputy Jim Higgins – the need for the Minister for Health and Children to grant the appeal for a licence for a pharmacy in Knock; (4) Deputy Broughan – the urgent need to provide for the continuance of the butter voucher scheme given its importance to families on low incomes; (5) Deputy Wall – the provision of funding for the hyperactive attention deficit disorder and the attention deficit disorder support groups; (6) Deputy Daly – the impending closure of the KEL factory in Ennis, County Clare, with the loss of up to 70 jobs; (7) Deputy Ulick Burke – the closure of the manufacturing section of AT Cross in Ballinasloe; (8) Deputy Michael Kitt – the action to be taken by the Government to provide employment in Ballinasloe in view of the loss of 100 jobs at the AT Cross manufacturing plant; (9) Deputy Connaughton – the matter of the substantial reduction in the workforce at the AT Cross factory in Ballinasloe, County Galway; (10) Deputy Keaveney – the need to convene a forum on the future of the textile industry in County Donegal; (11) Deputy Olivia Mitchell – the return of power to the local authorities to issue taxi licences in view of the injunction preventing the issue of licences by the Department of the Environment and Local Government; (12) Deputy Finucane – the need to provide funding to the Office of Public Works to enable river improvement work at Dromcolliher, County Limerick; (13) Deputy Michael D. Higgins – the continued imposition of economic sanctions on Iraq and the resignation of the representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations with responsibility for humanitarian relief; (14) Deputy Bell – the need to establish a jobs task force to find replacement work for the employees at the MKIR Panasonic plant in Dundalk; (15) Deputy Upton – the need for an urgent investigation into price disparities in home insurance premia.
The matters raised by Deputies Daly, Ulick Burke, Connaughton and Bell have been selected for discussion.