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) Deputies Cregan and O'Sullivan — if the Minister will restore full transport to first year students attending second level schools in County Limerick (details supplied); (2) Deputy Breen — that the Minister immediately deploy a special Garda unit to assist local gardaí in their efforts to deal with the ongoing and escalating acts of vandalism and anti-social behaviour in the west Clare town of Kilrush where people are now living in fear; (3) Deputy Jan O'Sullivan — the need for the Minister to ensure the provision of transport for children travelling to a school in County Limerick (details supplied); (4) Deputy Finian McGrath — on the new proposal ‘Preparing for Life' a plan to enable children to be ready for school and the urgent need to tackle educational disadvantage; (5) Deputy Neville — school transport for first year students to a school (details supplied) from Limerick City; (6) Deputy Healy — the urgent need for the Minister to implement the High Court agreement for the provision of hospital services at Cashel and Clonmel, County Tipperary by providing funds for the completion of units and for the revenue and running costs of these units and granting approval for the commencement of the tender process for phase 2 at Cashel and commencement of the planning process for phase 2 at Clonmel and to ask the Minister to meet a deputation of Oireachtas Members and local authority mayors and chairmen from south Tipperary on the matter; (7) Deputies Howlin and Broughan — the serious implications for labour relations and the future of social partnership as well as the future of the maritime sector in Ireland of the plan by Irish Ferries to seek the redundancy of 543 Irish staff with a view to replacing them by lower paid workers from abroad and the need for the Government to intervene; (8) Deputy Ring — to ask the Minister the progress that has been made in relation to the release of five people (details supplied) from jail; (9) Deputy Boyle — to ask the Minister when his Department became aware of the difficulties surrounding the closure of the ADM plant in Ringaskiddy, County Cork; (10) Deputy Gogarty — the need to urgently introduce a refundable deposit on beverage containers to reduce litter; (11) Deputy Crowe — the necessity for the Minister to address the bullying of staff in Irish Ferries into taking "voluntary redundancy" as was allowed to happen in Aer Lingus, lest management now see this as a legitimate tactic, and to send a clear signal that this type of behaviour is unacceptable; (12) Deputy Morgan — the necessity for the Minister to make a statement on the fact that competition law is being mischievously used to attack the rights of certain workers, in particular actors, musicians, film crews and freelance journalists, to be collectively represented and the necessity for the Minister to amend the Industrial Relations Acts in respect of the definition of employee in order to rectify this unacceptable situation; (13) Deputy Hogan — to clarify his view in respect of the application made to Waterford City Council to extend its administrative boundary into an area currently under the jurisdiction of Kilkenny County Council and if he will take the necessary steps to terminate this process; (14) Deputy McGinley — to ask the Minister what are his plans to replace the 570 jobs being lost at Hospira, Donegal town; and (15) Deputy Enright — to ask the Tánaiste and Minister to explain why following the abolition of health boards, a patient is still being refused a bed in a nursing unit (details supplied) because it is one eighth of a mile into a different health board area from that in which he resides.
The matters raised by Deputies Ring, Boyle, Cregan and O'Sullivan, and Neville have been selected for discussion and will be taken at the conclusion of business.