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 Terence Flanagan — the Minister's plans to eliminate long-term homelessness by the end of 2010; (2) Deputy Mattie McGrath — the need for a problem in the HSE primary care reimbursement service system which is preventing medical card patients from accessing their care and medication to be resolved as a matter of urgency; (3) Deputy Joe Costello — the need to provide replacement training facilities for the unemployed in Dublin North-West and the north inner city; (4) Deputy Seán Sherlock — the need for new primary school accommodation in Midleton, County Cork; (5) Deputy Emmet Stagg — the progress with the review of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the Department's proposals to strengthen the remit of the authority to deal with situations at waste facilities; and (6) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd — to ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the position with regard to the capital budget underspend in her Department, to indicate whether she intends to spend the remaining €331 million on school buildings before the end of the year, to provide clarity as to why the Department has failed to spend its allocated budget given the obvious pressure on school demographics, and to make a statement on the matter.
The matters raised by Deputies Joe Costello, Seán Sherlock, Terence Flanagan and Emmet Stagg have been selected for discussion.