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 Ring — the available funding under the Access II programme and the status of an application for funds by an organisation (details supplied); (2) Deputy Hayes — the need for the Minister to resolve issues concerning the CAT scanner at South Tipperary General Hospital; (3) Deputy Deenihan — the problems with the trauma-orthopaedic services at Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, County Kerry; (4) Deputy Healy — the need for the location of an emergency ambulance service in the town of Carrick-on-Suir; (5) Deputy O'Dowd — the plans for a school in County Louth; (6) Deputy Cowley — the need for the Minister to provide adequate education for an autistic boy in County Mayo; (7) Deputy Costello — the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to introduce legislation to ban trafficking in people; (8) Deputy Crawford — the need for the Minister to provide the necessary funds to restore the regional and county roads in County Monaghan; (9) Deputy Neville — the construction of a new school at Coláiste Chiaráin, Croom, County Limerick; (10) Deputy Ó Snodaigh — the need for the Minister to address the longest waiting list in the country for addicts in Ballyfermot, Dublin 10, looking to access methadone treatment programmes; (11) Deputy Cassidy — the progress to date with regard to the provision of a new headquarters for the Department of Education and Science in Mullingar; (12) Deputy Michael D. Higgins — the need for the Minister to review the legislation in view of the most recent action of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and its interpretation of section 10(3) of the Radio and Television Act 1988; and (13) Deputy Cooper-Flynn — the reason the criteria for primary medical certificate and disabled driver's tax concessions exclude applicants with arm amputations.
The matters raised by Deputies Cassidy, Hayes, Michael D. Higgins and Crawford have been selected for discussion.