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 Finian McGrath — the need for new cancer services at Beaumont Hospital; (2) Deputy Thomas McEllistrim — the need to ensure the application for a community enterprise centre in Farranfore, County Kerry, is given due priority; (3) Deputy Willie Penrose — the need to indicate comprehensively why an application by a school (details supplied) for funding in the sum of €484,000 under the summer works scheme 2007, was refused by the Department despite the fact that there is an urgent need for additional classrooms, office, general purpose room and resource rooms, and if she will indicate why this school, which is classified as disadvantaged but with no concessionary posts, was not allocated the funding sought; and if she will make a statement on the matter; (4) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — the need to establish a ministerial task force to carry out a traceability audit of all building sites allegedly supplied with defective stone infill by a quarry group; (5) Deputies Seán Sherlock and David Stanton — the implications for the Cork area of the announcement that a company is not now to proceed with its development; (6) Deputy Catherine Byrne — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to intervene to ensure that patients continue to receive methadone treatment from pharmacists in line with present arrangements; (7) Deputy Alan Shatter — the need to refuse to grant a visa to a member of Hizbollah; (8) Deputy Pat Breen — the need to ascertain if the HSE and the Department of Health and Children are happy with the current level of emergency "on-call" ambulance service available to the people of County Clare after 6 p.m.; if they are happy that the current level of service is sufficient to deal with the activation of the region's major emergency plan, including an emergency at Shannon international airport; (9) Deputy David Stanton — the need to make a statement on the announcement made by Amgen, one of the world's top biotechnology companies, that it has indefinitely shelved plans to build a major plant in Carrigtwohill costing €1 billion; the action that State agencies are going to take as a result; and if he will assure that the road works etc., that have commenced will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter; (10) Deputy Brian O'Shea — the need to provide funding in his Department's capital works programme 2007 towards the Tallow fire station project; (11) Deputy Chris Andrews — given the chronic shortage of step-down facilities in the Dublin south east area, the need for the Minister to give assurance to the House that St. Luke's Hospital in Rathgar will eventually become a step-down health care facility; and (12) Deputy Tony Gregory — the application by the Ward Union stag hunt for a licence to hunt deer.
The matters raised by Deputies Thomas McEllistrim, Seán Sherlock and David Stanton, Alan Shatter and Thomas P. Broughan have been selected for discussion.