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 Healy – the decision of Allied Irish Banks to close its Killenaule, County Tipperary, branch on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with effect from 18 June 2002; (2) Deputy Crowe – the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to address the renewed and growing crisis in communities, especially in Dublin, with the increased supply of heroin on the streets and the devastating social consequences; (3) Deputy Ring – to ask the Minister for Education and Science to provide a list of all the schools in County Mayo, both primary and secondary, waiting on approval of funding for renovations, refurbishment, extensions or new buildings; (4) Deputy Allen – the catastrophic effect the cuts in community employment schemes will have on the operation of community based organisations, such as community associations, sporting organisations and community based social services; (5) Deputy Sargent – that the Government establish the value in monetary terms and the amount of various fish species taken from Irish waters by non-Irish EU vessels every year since Ireland became a member of the EEC; (6) Deputy Seán Ryan – the crisis in the Holy Family junior national school, River Valley, Swords, County Dublin, where parents-guardians of children from the school's catchment area have been informed that their children cannot be accommodated in September 2002; (7) Deputy McGuinness – the urgent need for Government assistance to secure the 180 jobs at Comer International, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny; (9) Deputy Timmins – to ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food what submissions, if any, he has made to the EU on the mid-term review of Agenda 2000; (10) Deputy Boyle – that the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment address the effect of community employment scheme cuts in the Cork area. (11) Deputy Hogan – the need for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to indicate when she will publish the Forfás report on prices and what action she will take to protect consumers from this large scale price rip off and to safeguard consumers against profiteering under the cover of the euro changeover (12) Deputy Killeen – the urgent need to sanction the appointment of an additional teacher at Barefield national school, County Clare, in view of the pressure arising from special needs provisions and the staffing crisis in other Clare schools; (13) Deputy Ó Caoláin – the urgent need for the Minister for Foreign Affairs to raise with the British government the recent activities of its military and police forces in the Six Counties who have intervened directly in the political process by seeking to use events such as the break-in at Castlereagh to falsely accuse republicans and secure the expulsion of Sinn Féin from the Executive and to undermine the peace process; (14) Deputy Broughan – the urgent need to preserve the social economy by legislating support for the community employment programme which is now being slashed in areas of deprivation.
The matters raised by Deputies McGuinness, Ring, Seán Ryan and Sargent have been selected for discussion.