The following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 were received by the Ceann Comhairle, and this is a list of the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Naughten – the need for the Minister for Education and Science to provide funding for personal assistants at St. Michael's Special School, Castlerea, in light of the announcement by FÁS that it will no longer support the programme in the school; (2) Deputy Hayes – the need to clarify the position in respect of lands at Kingswood Heights, Dublin 24 which are needed to provide playing pitches for local schools and teams in the area; (3) Deputy Neville – the difficulties being experienced by St. Joseph's and St. Anne's National School, Rathkeale; (4) Deputy Lawlor – the proposal for the provision of an outer ring road in Dublin the context of the Government's housing and spatial development plans for Dublin and the urgent requirement for the relocation of an Outer Ring Road, to the west of its currently proposed position; (5) Deputies McGrath and Penrose – the now urgent need to progress the Coloiste Cionn Torc new school project at Castlepollard, County Westmeath; (6) Deputy Crawford – the urgent need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise and Employment to bring together the employers and unions in the furniture industry before permanent damage is done to the industry through the official strike that has stopped production. Over 500 jobs are at stake in county Monaghan alone; (7) Deputy Broughan – the urgent need to ensure that teaching staff numbers are not cut in September 2001 at St. Peter's & Paul's boys' national school, Baldoyle, Dublin 13, and at St. Fintan's national school, Sutton, Dublin 13; (8) Deputy J. McGuinness – the need to establish new procedures in the compulsory purchase of land for road construction and protect the rights of land owners and local communities; (9) Deputy Deenihan – to ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will advance the application for an extension to St. Joseph's Convent, Ballybunion, County Kerry, as a matter of urgency in view of the lack of facilities in the school.
The matters raised by the following Deputies have been selected for discussion: Deputies Neville, McGrath and Penrose, Broughan and Lawlor.