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 Ulick Burke – the urgent need for the Minister for Education and Science to approve and provide funding for an extension and refurbishment at Killeneen national school, Craughwell, County Galway, where facilities are totally inadequate and substandard; (2) Deputy Rabbitte – the reason the Minister for Education and Science is withholding permission to go to tender for a school's necessary refurbishment project in Dublin 24, given that the required local contribution has been met, plans agreed and professional fees discharged; (3) Deputy Clune – the need to implement the recommendations of the report carried out by the Food Safety Promotion Board on the consumption of stimulant drinks; (4) Deputy Durkan – the ongoing issue of the systematic appeals to An Bord Pleanála by An Taisce against decisions by local authorities to grant planning permission to indigenous rural residents for individual's houses, resulting inevitably in a reversal of the decision, the ultimate consequences of which will lead to serious depletion of the rural population; (5) Deputy McGuinness – the urgent need for the Minister to withdraw his order to allow temporary accommodation be provided on a site in Kilkenny for use by refugees-asylum seekers until such time as proper consultation has taken place; (6) Deputy Crawford – to urge the Minister for Health and Children to intervene so that the 15p per mile already withdrawn from carers and home helps in the North Eastern Health Board will be restored as a matter of urgency if this vital service is to be retained for the elderly and disabled; (7) Deputy Stagg – the condition of the National School in Kilcock, County Kildare and the delay in implementing the decision of the Department of Education and Science to provide the required additional accommodation and to upgrade some of the existing accommodation about which decisions were made in October 2000; (8) Deputy Healy – the urgent need for an extension to Mount Bruis national school, County Tipperary; and (9) Deputy Dan Neville – Patrickswell sewerage scheme.
The matters raised by Deputies Rabbitte, Crawford, Durkan and McGuinness have been selected for discussion.