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 Healy — the urgent need to commence the Clonmel flood alleviation scheme as announced by the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Parlon, earlier this year; (2) Deputy Gregory — the crisis in the accident and emergency department in the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7; (3) Deputies Pat Breen and James Breen — to ask the Minister why a CAT scanner has not been installed in Ennis General Hospital when the funding has been provided for same; (4) Deputy Eamon Ryan — if the Minister will outline the maximum level of central Government funding that could be made available for the rebuilding of a swimming pool (details supplied) which closed on 15 July last; (5) Deputy Durkan — to debate recent indications that registration of all mobile phones is not fully effective resulting in a possible greater use of mobile phones in the transmission of pornographic images; (6) Deputy Crowe — that a debate be held on the recent report on children in Tallaght west and the failure of the State and its agencies to respond sufficiently in a co-ordinated manner to the poverty and social inequities highlighted in the report; (7) Deputy Costello — the need for the Minister to provide paid legal representation for a family (details supplied) at the Morris tribunal; (8) Deputy Mulcahy — the need for the Minister to make funding available for new windows at a school (details supplied); (9) Deputy Gilmore — the proposed relocation of Bord Iascaigh Mhara from Dún Laoghaire to Clonakilty, County Cork; (10) Deputy Neville — the report of the inspector of mental hospitals for the year ending 31 December 2003; (11) Deputy Crawford — to ask the Minister for Health and Children the urgent steps she is prepared to take to deal with the serious and unacceptable situation involving the Cavan-Monaghan hospital group in which Monaghan General Hospital is still off call since July 2002 and Cavan is not able to cope with all the unnecessary patients leading to serious pressure on patients and family; (12) Deputy O'Dowd — to discuss the report issued today by the EPA's office of environmental enforcement with particular reference to the scandal of large scale illegal dumping; (13) Deputy Ó Caoláin — the need for the Minister to take action to address the serious situation in Cavan General Hospital where up to 16 patients at a time have been on trolleys in the accident and emergency ward awaiting beds; where elective surgery has been postponed for the rest of this week; and where the situation is compounded by suspected cases of the winter vomiting bug; (14) Deputy Upton — that the Minister provide a voucher system to allow public clients of the health service obtain speech therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy services as the current health centre-led provision has ceased to function; (15) Deputy Sargent — that the Minister outline his policy in regard to the need for Exchequer funding for signalling work to facilitate more trains per hour on the northern suburban rail and DART services given that approval for expenditure is awaited by Iarnród Éireann from Government and to facilitate a badly needed capacity increase on this line, which needs additional rolling stock and especially double-decker carriages to serve the fast growing population in Fingal.
The matters raised by Deputies Neville, Durkan, Sargent and Mulcahy have been selected for discussion.