I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given to me under Standing Order 20 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Kirk — the need to establish a task force to plan the development of an economic corridor from Dublin to Belfast; (2) Deputy Nealon — the effect of the change in the drink driving law on social life, particularly in rural areas; (3) Deputy Deasy — the steps the Government is taking to protect the wreck and contents of the Lusitania which is lying on the seabed off the Old Head of Kinsale; (4) Deputy Quill — the response to the submission on the funding crisis at the Cork Rape Crisis Centre made to the Minister for Health by the committee of the centre; (5) Deputy Ellis — the reason the Department of Education failed to extend insurance cover to the area adjacent to the sports complex at Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, which it is proposed to use for the school buses serving the new comprehensive school; (6) Deputy Kenneally — the problems that arise on a national basis as a result of the granting of tax concessions to farmers to plant trees and particularly the difficulties in the Mount Melleray area of County Waterford; (7) Deputy Flood — the difficulties which exist between the Eastern Health Board, Dublin Corporation and the Thomas McDonagh Residents' Association, Ballymun, on the one hand and Father Peter McVerry on the other in the matter of the hostel for homeless boys run by Father Peter McVerry in Ballymun; (8) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the immediate action it is proposed to take given that 45 patients scheduled for elective surgery today have been cancelled without adequate notice at Cork University Hospital.
The matters raised by the following Deputies have been selected by me for discussion: Deputy Kirk, Deputy Nealon, Deputy Quill and Deputy Batt O'Keeffe.