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 McCormack – the matter of the regulations governing the payment of rent allowance by health boards; (2) Deputy Upton – the need to introduce a system of traceability for all meat and meat products which are imported to Ireland from outside the EU; (3) Deputy Deasy – the loss of 104 jobs at the Stafford Miller plant in Dungarvan, County Waterford; (4) Deputy Clune – the need for the Minister to make a statement following the announcement by ISPAT that it is to cease operating at its plant in Cork Harbour; (5) Deputy Kirk – the need to reassure workers at Xerox, Dundalk, of the security of their employment and the well being of the company's future prospects in Dundalk; (6) Deputy Crawford – the urgent need for the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands to provide immediate funding for the Theatre and Resource Centre in Castleblaney, County Monaghan; (7) Deputy Stanton – the need to outline the steps that have been taken to avert the threatened closure of the steel plant at Irish ISPAT at Haulbowline in County Cork; (8) Deputy Gregory – the destruction of the Wiggins Teape Building on East Wall Road, Dublin 3, last Saturday, 16 June 2001, and the urgent need to introduce local authority certification for the demolition of any building and other steps to protect our architectural heritage; (9) Deputy Coveney – the need for action to avert the loss of more than 400 jobs at Irish ISPAT Steel Plant in Cork and maximise the likelihood of a rescue package being agreed upon; and (10) Deputy Enright – the unsatisfactory nature of the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 585 of 12 June 2001 regarding the provision of a new primary school in Daingean, County Offaly.
The matters raised by Deputies Deasy, Kirk, Upton and McCormack have been selected for discussion.