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) Deputies Healy and Hayes – that the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment establish a task force for Tipperary town to address the very serious unemployment levels there which have now been compounded by the loss of 150 jobs at Pall (Irl.) Ltd. announced on Thursday last; (2) Deputy Ring – to ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will reimburse the people who had to pay for dental treatment during the recent dispute with the IDA particularly those who had emergency dental problems; (3) Deputy Harkin – to ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will reverse the decision taken by Teagasc to close and sell off the Teagasc research centre in Ballinamore, County Leitrim and the Teagasc advice centre in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim; (4) Deputy Lynch – the safety management systems, and efforts to ensure the safety of employees in Irish hotels following the death of a worker in a Limerick hotel last year and the subsequent investigation by the Health and Safety Authority; (5) Deputy McManus – the serious budgetary crisis facing the Mater Hospital and other major teaching hospitals in the Greater Dublin area; (6) Deputy Crawford – to ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food for the opportunity to discuss the decision of Teagasc to sell land; (7) Deputies Stanton and Coveney – to ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food to debate the planned sales of land by Teagasc; (8) Deputy Ellis – to request the Minister for Agriculture to discuss the decision by Teagasc to sell land at Ballinamore and Manorhamilton, County Leitrim; (9) Deputy Shortall – the urgent need to deal with serious management difficulties in the Finglas Child and Adolescent Centre in order to restore it to a fully functioning centre of care for young offenders; (10) Deputy Deenihan – the threatened downgrading of Tralee General Hospital as outlined in the leaked task force report on medical staffing; (11) Deputy Neville – the need for an independent investigation into the death by suicide of a 21 year old student at Mid-Western Regional Hospital on 20 September 2002; (12) Deputies Harkin and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin – if the Minister for Agriculture and Food will discuss the decision taken by Teagasc to sell off land; (13) Deputy O'Dowd – to ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs to discuss the decision to relocate the passport office in Balbriggan, County Dublin; (14) Deputy Andrews – to ask the Minister for Education and Science to make a statement on negotiations with IMPACT regarding possible strike action by administrators in vocational education committees and on what the consequences of such strike action would be; (15) Deputy Emmet Stagg – the failure of the Minister for Education and Science to sanction a furniture grant for the new €3.5 million North Kildare Educate Together School at Ballymakealy, Celbridge, County Kildare.
The matters raised by Deputies Crawford, Stanton and Coveney, Ellis and Harkin and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin have been selected for discussion.