I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 20 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Ellis — the problems relating to the offices of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry in Sligo where people have to walk to the fourth floor to have problems dealt with; and the need to have facilities provided at ground floor level to accommodate callers; (2) Deputy Kenneally — the need for additional classrooms at Ballygunner national school in Waterford city; (3) Deputy Noel Ahern — the failure to reply to several requests from the European Commission in relation to waste management at Dunsink tiphead; (4) Deputy Michael Kitt — the need for the appointment of a remedial teacher to Mountbellow, Moylough, Cooloo and Briarfield national schools; (5) Deputy Finucane — the need to provide funding for an extension to Ballyagran primary school, County Limerick; (6) Deputy Eric Byrne — the urgent need to regularise the position of those illegal immigrants who have been in the State for five years or more who have committed no offence other than being illegal immigrants and who have no criminal record in their countries of origin; (7) Deputy Lynch — the urgent need for Ireland to declare a unilateral ban on the manufacture or assembly of landmines, instruments of torture or their components; and to campaign in international fora for a worldwide ban in the manufacture, assembly, trade and use of such instruments; (8) Deputy Séamus Brennan — the proposal to issue a second national mobile 'phone licence to the private sector; (9) Deputy Dermot Ahern — the incursion by RUC Personnel and British army helicopters into the Ravensdale area of County Louth; (10) Deputy Kirk — the alarm in the north Louth area as a result of the incursion of a British army helicopter yesterday; and the need to lodge a protest with the British Government and (11) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív — the need to provide alternative housing for families in the south Galway area whose houses have been flooded for the last six weeks and are likely to be flooded for the forseeable future.
The matters raised by the following Deputies have been selected for discussion: Deputies Kirk, Noel Ahern, Kenneally and Ellis.