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 Gay Mitchell – the delays of up to three years in having the occupational therapy unit of the Eastern Regional Health Authority assess the needs of disabled and elderly people; (2) Deputy Finucane – the need for a speech and language therapist for a school (details supplied) in County Limerick which has 30 children with a wide range of disabilities; (3) Deputy McGennis – the problems caused for school crossing attendants who are being denied unemployment benefit during the summer period; (4) Deputy Clune – the need to ensure that insurance companies offering life assurance will not be allowed to request an individual's genetic make-up; (5) Deputy Ring – to ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to confirm plans he has to upgrade the whole court services in County Mayo and to make a full statement on the matter; (6) Deputy Browne (Wexford)– the severe flooding in Enniscorthy; (7) Deputy Seán Ryan – the urgent need for additional gardaí and resources for Swords, Balbriggan and Malahide Garda stations; (8) Deputy Sargent – the measures which need to be taken in order to avoid EU fines because of the failure to tackle the waste issue; (9) Deputy Gregory – the need to bring forward proposals arising from the report of the commission on the residential-private rental sector; (10) Deputy Neville – the report of the social services inspectorate on children's residential centres; (11) Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin – the pressing need for greatly expanded provision of child care with the full amount of revenue accruing from payment of previously unpaid DIRT tax by financial institutions devoted to this purpose; (12) Deputy Fitzgerald – the urgent need for the Government to take action in the crisis in planning affecting child care providers; (13) Deputy Broughan – the need to increase the level of fuel allowance payable to long-term social welfare recipients; (14) Deputy Howlin – the accommodation of asylum seekers in a hotel in Rosslare Harbour; (15) Deputy Creed – the proposed extension to St. Mary's secondary school, Macroom; (16) Deputy Gilmore – the need for urgent Government action to deal with the serious damage and disruption to travel caused by the recent storms and the need for a government package to assist those areas which have suffered most; and (17) Deputy O'Sullivan – the need for the Department of the Environment and Local Government to adequately fund Limerick Corporation's recycling programme so that targets set in the waste management plan for the mid-west region can be achieved.
The matters raised by Deputies Clune, Neville, McGennis and Howlin have been selected for discussion.