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 Keaveney — the need to review the student summer job scheme with a view to reintroducing the extra payment to participants whose parents are social welfare recipients, making a general increase in payments for participants on the scheme and opening the scheme to those who have completed the leaving certificate examination; (2) Deputy Shortall — the need to tackle illegal drug dealers by establishing a special unit involving the Garda Síochána, the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Social Welfare; (3) Deputy Hugh Byrne — the policy implications for the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry arising from the cessation of research, which was specifically dedicated to organic farming, at the State's only research facility for organic farming; (4) Deputy Broughan — the need to re-examine the provision of resources for orthodontic dental care on the north side of Dublin; (5) Deputy Joe Walsh — the need for the Minister for Education to have arrangements made for an architect to visit a school (details supplied) in County Cork so that the dangerous condition of the school can be assessed and an immediate programme of necessary improvements put in train; (6) Deputy O'Dea — the need for a practical response to the difficulties and dangers facing people in residential care; (7) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the danger to staff in University Hospital, Cork, from radiation in the cancer treatment unit and the action the Minister for Health proposes to take in this regard; (8) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the need to address the problem being experienced by the Irish Country Houses and Restaurants Association in recruiting staff; (9) Deputy Geoghegan-Quinn — the action the Minister for Health proposes to take to avert major industrial action in hospitals around the country due to the threatened nurses dispute; (10) Deputy Ellis — the delay in the provision of sewage treatment schemes for the villages of Dromod, Drumsna and Jamestown, County Leitrim; (11) Deputy Killeen — the circumstances which led to the award of a contract for an executive jet to serve the Government for the duration of the EU Presidency with a UK company, Hunting Aviation, which neither owns nor operates an executive jet, and the need to ensure that Irish companies benefit from the EU Presidency; (12) Deputy Briscoe — the disturbance and disruption caused to students by the transfer of the art education annex of the National College of Art and Design from its premises on Leinster Lane to a temporary site at the Carysfort complex; (13) Deputy McDaid — the legislation and extension of the current arrangements for the use of diamorphine in medical care, especially in hospice care; (14) Deputy Séamus Brennan — the measures that the Minister for Transport, Energy and Telecommunications has taken to ensure that the second mobile telephone operator delivers good coverage; (15) Deputy O'Donnell — the need for the introduction by the Minister for Justice of measures at community level to counter growing drug-related vigilantism; (16) Deputy Cowen — the EU package of compensation for beef producers agreed on 14 May 1996; (17) Deputy Ring — the need to resolve the school transport problem at Newport, County Mayo, by maintaining the current level of service to Westport.
Deputy Brian Cowen was selected by me to raise a matter on the Adjournment, but as he has been ordered to withdraw from the Dáil the matter may not now be raised. The matters raised by Deputies Geoghegan-Quinn, O'Donnell and Killeen have been selected for discussion.