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 Ferris — the effects which changes to the taxation system are having on the lower paid employees of a store (details supplied) who have been informed that they are no longer entitled to staff discounts due to new regulations; (2) Deputy Gormley — to discuss the allocation of special educational needs resources in a Dublin school (details supplied); (3) Deputy Penrose — the need for the Minister to take steps to ensure that employees of the fishery boards are paid the amount due to them under the craft analogue pay relationship with local authority general operatives; (4) Deputy Wall -. to ask the Minister to outline the position of an application for capital funding for a school (details supplied); (5) Deputy Pat Breen — that the Minister provide the necessary funding for refurbishment and upgrading of science facilities at a school (details supplied); (6) Deputy Neville — orthodontic services in the mid-western region; (7) Deputy Crawford — to ask the Minister for Health and Children to take immediate action to ensure that sufficient money is available for home help-home care and that the people providing this work get a proper mileage allowance; (8) Deputy Cowley — to ask the Minister to look into the situation where a planned extension at a school (details supplied) to the value of €100,000 will fail to address the present and future needs of the school; (9) Deputy Hayes — the need for the Minister to say when €2 million will be made available to the South Eastern Health Board to resource the new unit at South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel; (10) Deputy Gogarty — the need for the Government to protect the Clondalkin round tower by purchasing the site; (11) Deputy Lynch — the urgent need for new premises for the Irish Blood Transfusion Service in Cork, as previously promised; (12) Deputy Ó Caoláin — the need for the Minister to take urgent action in a case to grant a family reunification visa to an 11 year old girl (details supplied) whose parents are legally resident in Ireland; (13) Deputy Broughan — the need to ensure that the dual mandate legislation is operated fully and fairly by local authorities given recent failures in this regard by Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council; and (14) Deputy Ó Snodaigh — the urgent need for the Minister to grant a school (details supplied) disadvantage status as it is the only school in an area of disadvantage not to have such status.
The matters raised by Deputies Gormley, Wall, Hayes and Lynch have been selected for discussion.