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 Catherine Murphy — the funding approach to disabled persons' and essential repairs grants requiring local authorities to provide one third matching funding, which does not result in a needs centred approach and is inequitable in that it has more to do with where the applicant lives than with their level of dependency; (2) Deputy Pat Breen — that the Minister immediately deploy a special Garda unit to deal with the ongoing and escalating acts of vandalism and anti-social behaviour in Kilrush, County Clare; (3) Deputy Enright — to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to explain the reason a patient is still being refused a bed in a nursing unit; (4) Deputy Healy — the need for the Minister to implement the High Court agreement for the provision of hospital services at Cashel and Clonmel, County Tipperary; (5) Deputy Upton — the need for the Minister to explain the withdrawal of the fuel allowance from pensioners in local authority housing complexes; (6) Deputy Ring — to ask the Minister her plans to provide a permanent site for a school in County Mayo and the progress made on this matter; (7) Deputy Gormley — that the Minister explain why the alcohol products (control of advertising sponsorship and marketing practices/sales promotions) Bill has been dropped from the Government's legislation programme and outline her alternative plans to counteract alcohol abuse; (8) Deputy Allen — the failure of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to provide information requested to a parliamentary question for written reply submitted on 29 August 2005 regarding the number of centres housing asylum seekers and the total expenditure in each centre on an annual basis which was responded to last week by the Department, which stated that it had not been possible to compile the information requested and that it would be forwarded directly by letter and which has not yet arrived by today, 5 October; (9) Deputy Costello — the need for the Minister to take adequate measures to tackle the growing problem of cocaine, including crack cocaine, trafficking in Ireland and to state his proposals for dealing with the annual epidemic of fireworks in the run up to Hallowe'en and why he is seeking an exemption from an EU directive to harmonise safety standards on fireworks across member states; and (10) Deputy Morgan — the necessity for the Minister to make a statement regarding his plans to address the fact that competition law is being mischievously used to attack the rights of certain workers.
The matters raised by Deputies Enright, Healy, Upton and Pat Breen have been selected for discussion.