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 Deasy – the need to distribute copies of the collection of the Folklore Commission to the various library committees; (2) Deputy Deenihan – the need to provide the necessary staffing requirement at the State Laboratory to ensure that reports on autopsies can be supplied within a week especially in relation to foreign nationals who die in this country, as there is currently a three month waiting period; (3) Deputy Michael Moynihan – the need to discuss the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to school transport to Meelin national school; (4) Deputy Ó Caoláin – the need for the Government, in the interest of Irish cross-Border trade and international trade, to oppose the proposal from the British Government to introduce a special levy by way of a disc for haulage vehicles using roads in the Six Counties and Britain; (5) Deputy Durkan – the payment of a one parent family allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; (6) Deputy Keaveney – the recent decision by the British Army Board to reject applications to discharge guardsman James Fisher and guardsman Mark Douglas Wright from the British Army; (7) Deputy Ring – the payment of unemployment benefit to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; (8) Deputy Perry – the reason the Department of Education and Science continues to cap the student intake into the BED degree programme in St. Angela's College, Lough Gill, County Sligo; (9) Deputy Jim Higgins – the totally inadequate services, particularly speech therapy services, for children suffering from Downs Syndrome in County Mayo; (10) Deputy Crawford – the urgent need for Government to commit funding for the Castle Saunderson Camp site, Cavan-Monaghan, for all the scouts on the island of Ireland, a true project to foster peace and reconciliation among people from both sides of the Border; (11) Deputy Upton – the need for measures to tackle the problem of joy-riding; and (12) Deputy Sargent – the need for measures to end homelessness in Dublin.
The matters raised by Deputies Perry, Sargent, Durkan and Upton have been selected for discussion.