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 Ó Caoláin — the need for the Minister to take urgent action in a case to grant a family reunification visa to an eleven-year-old girl (details supplied) whose parents are legally resident in Ireland; (2) Deputy Ó Snodaigh — the urgent need for the Minister to grant a school (details supplied) disadvantaged status as it is the only school in an area of disadvantage not to have such status; (3) Deputy Ring — to ask the Minister the current position with regard to a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; (4) Deputy Finneran — the need for the Minister to address the proposed refurbishment and extension at a school in Roscommon (details supplied); (5) Deputy Crawford — to ask the Minister for Health and Children to take immediate action to ensure that sufficient money is available for home help or home care and that the people providing this work get a proper mileage allowance; (6) Deputy McGinley — to ask the Minister the reason he dismissed the chairperson of the Civil Defence board last week; (7) Deputy Pat Breen — to ask the Minister the current position with regard to the Quilty, Scariff and Feakle sewerage schemes; (8) Deputy Neville — orthodontic services in mid-western region; (9) Deputy Glennon — the proposed sale by the Dublin Port Authority to private buyers of the harbours at Balbriggan and Skerries; (10) Deputy Cowley — to ask the Minister to examine 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; and (11) Deputy Joe Higgins — to raise with the Minister the concern over the case of a person (details supplied).
The matters raised by Deputies McGinley, Glennon, Crawford and Ó Caoláin have been selected for discussion.