I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given to me under Standing Order 20 (3) (a) and the name of the member in each case: Deputy Durkan — if the Minister for Finance will intervene in the case of a person in County Kildare who provided a temporary seat in a goods vehicle to accommodate his disabled mother and was subsequently issued with a demand for excise duties for a sum of almost £5,000; Deputy Taylor — the raid by armed officers of the Special Branch on the Community Hall of the Killinarden Parish Community Hall on 14 January 1992; Deputy Dukes — the liability of local authorities and of sanitary authorities to persons who suffer illness as a result of incidents of pollution or of public water supply contamination; Deputy Reynolds — the progress that has been made in the building of a new community school in Carrick-on-Shannon in view of the commitment given by the Minister for Education in 1989 that it would be built within three years; Deputy Flanagan — the disqualification of thousands of farmers from payment of the EC special beef premium and other related grants and the need for urgent action on the part of the Minister for Agriculture and Food to ensure payment; Deputy Pattison — the reasons the Minister for Energy has prohibited the ESB from selling electrical appliances through their billing system, in view of the fact that the Director of Consumer Affairs had already rejected representations by independent traders that this amounted to unfair competition; Deputy Gregory — on the 20th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Derry and following revelations made on recent television programmes, that steps be taken by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to bring about an independent inquiry into the events that resulted in the deaths of 13 people; Deputy Garland — the urgent situation arising from the issuing of a felling licence in Coolattin Woods, one of Ireland's last remaining oak woodlands, for 323 trees; Deputy O'Shea— the need for the Minister for Education to rescind the decision to means test ESF maintenance grants in the regional technical colleges/Dublin Institute of Technology sector with effect from September 1992; Deputy McCartan — the need for the Minister for the Environment to provide moneys to enable the north Dublin water development scheme to recommence in view of the totally inadequate supplies of water to many residential areas on the northern fringe of the city; Deputy Mac Giolla — the recent instruction issued by the Minister for Energy to the ESB to cease using the billing system for promoting and collecting instalments on the sale of appliances; the implications for the board's business and employment levels and the difficulties this may create for low-income families who do not have access to other forms of credit; and Deputy Browne (Carlow-Kilkenny)— the difficulty where a person is looking after two disabled persons, maintenance allowance holders, and has been refused the carer's allowance on the basis of her husband's income.
I have selected for discussion the matters raised by the following Deputies: Flanagan, Pattison and McCartan.