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 Fitzgerald – the crisis in private rented accommodation in the Dublin area; (2) Deputy Durkan – the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 10 May 2000, regarding the application of the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations, 1994; (3) Deputy Crawford – the need to ensure that the teacher numbers will be retained at St. Daig's National School, Inniskeen, Scoil Chlochar Na Trocaire, Castleblayney, and Scoil Naomh, Corracrin, Emyvale, County Monaghan; (4) Deputy Finucane – the replacement of the roofs on 43 houses at Clenma Estate in Croom, County Limerick; (5) Deputy Sargent – the complaints being made against Dúchas by several environmental NGOs in respect of scientific criteria for special areas of conservation; (6) Deputy Ó Caoláin – the provision of the promised review in order to avert the imminent strike by the Psychiatric Nurses Association; (7) Deputy Kenny – the efforts made to provide alternative employment at Ballinrobe, County Mayo, following the closure of Betatherm Limited; (8) Deputy Stanton – the urgent need to provide resources to safeguard the beach at Youghal from further serious erosion, to further develop the harbour at Youghal and to repair and develop Ballycotton harbour in East Cork; (9) Deputy Seán Ryan – the death of an 85-year-old woman in St. James Hospital, Dublin, who had been left waiting for 14 hours for treatment in the casualty unit; (10) Deputy Broughan – the need for hospitals in Dublin to put in place emergency plans and new measures to be taken to ensure that addicts are fully informed of the threat posed by a batch of heroin currently on the market and (11) Deputy Donal Moynihan – the possibility of decentralisation of Government offices to Macroom and other north west Cork towns.
The matters raised by Deputies Crawford, Broughan, Fitzgerald and Finucane have been selected for debate.