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 Donal Moynihan – the need to discuss the extreme hardship caused to pupils and staff of St. Coleman's boys national school, Macroom, County Cork – roll No 15597W – and St. Joseph's primary school, Macroom, County Cork – roll No 10047I – due to the decision of the Department of Education and Science to terminate posts allocated under the Giving Children an Even Break scheme; in regard to the applications made by these two schools under this disadvantaged programme, to outline the process of appeal and if the up to date information supplied by these two schools was reviewed by the ERC and details of the scoring system used, the method of calculation of the points for inclusion and the cut off points for inclusion in the scheme; (2) Deputy O'Dowd – the decision to relocate the passport office in Balbriggan, County Dublin; (3) 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; (4) Deputy Shortall – the urgent need to deal with serious management difficulties in the Finglas child and adolescent centre; (5) Deputy Deenihan – the threatened downgrading of Tralee General Hospital as outlined in the leaked task force report on medical staffing; (6) Deputy Ó Snodaigh – the urgent need to address the concerns of staff and users of the Ballyfermot Health Centre; (7) Deputy Costello – the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to ensure that all letters sent to Members of the Oireachtas are delivered to those Members and to ensure that no citizen is reprimanded or disciplined for communicating with members of the Oireachtas on matters of public concern; (8) Deputy Keaveney – to ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reasons behind the increase of diesel prices to match petrol prices in some regions of the country; (9) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe – the need to intervene immediately in the stand-off between workers and management at ADM in Ringaskiddy, County Cork; (10) Deputy Fleming – the need for the Minister for Agriculture and Food to put in place as a matter of immediate urgency arrangements to provide health certification for export lambskins to Turkey and to consult with his colleagues in Northern Ireland and in the UK and other EU countries if appropriate to see what arrangements they have put in place to deal with this issue arising from changes from the Turkish authorities and to replicate these arrangements here in Ireland as the employment in and the viability of Maganey Industries Limited and others will be irreparably damaged unless this matter is dealt with over the coming days; and (11) Deputy Harkin – on why the Minister for Education and Science has decided to have a review on the payment of the minor works grant to primary schools and why in the meantime his Department is not paying the grant to primary schools for the school year.
The matters raised by Deputies O'Keeffe, O'Dowd, Shortall and Ó Snodaigh have been selected for discussion and will be taken at the conclusion of business.