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 Finneran – that the condition of chronic emphysema and bronchitis in coal miners be recognised as a prescribed disease under the occupational injury benefit legislation; (2) Deputy Burton – the need for the building of a permanent school at Mary, Mother of Hope National School, Littlepace, Castaheany, Dublin 15 in 2004; (3) Deputy Finian McGrath – the cracks and damages to people's homes in the Marino, Dublin 3 and Dublin 9 areas and the urgent need to ensure public safety for the duration of the construction of the Dublin Port tunnel; (4) Deputy Connaughton – the industrial dispute at the Department of Agriculture and Food offices in Galway and Limerick; (5) Deputy Pat Breen – the need to resist any attempts by the European Commission to change the current bilateral agreement between the US and Ireland; (6) Deputy Donal Moynihan – the need to discuss the extreme hardship caused to pupils and staff of St. Colman'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 to terminate posts allocated under the Giving Children an Even Break scheme; the applications made by these two schools under this disadvantaged programme; to outline the process of appeal; to ascertain if the up-to-date information supplied by these two schools was reviewed by the ERC; to provide 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; (7) Deputy Eamon Ryan – the declining stocks of wild Atlantic salmon and the fact that Ireland is the only remaining country to allow drift-netting for wild salmon; and (8) Deputy Ó Caoláin – the need for the relevant State agencies to act immediately in response to the closure of the CPV plant in Clones, County Monaghan, with the loss of 85 jobs.
The matters raised by Deputies Connaughton, Burton, Eamon Ryan and Finneran have been selected for discussion and will be taken at the conclusion of business.