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 Quill — the action, if any, being taken in relation to the fish kills in the River Martin, a tributary of the River Lee, on Thursday, 13 June, 1996, where in excess of four thousand brown trout and young salmon were poisoned; the smaller fish kill on the Owenacurra River; and the action, if any, which has been taken to date in respect of the 74 fish kills which took place in 1995; (2) Deputy Martin — the circumstances surrounding the decision by the Minister for Education not to publish in its entirety the Price Waterhouse inquiry report into errors in the 1995 leaving certificate art examination; (3) Deputy Shortall — the problem of truck parking in residential areas; (4) Deputy Seán Ryan — the safety of plastic tanks for the storage of heating oil and the regulations, if any, for the installation of such tanks; (5) Deputy Flaherty — the urgent need for a classroom assistant for St. Patrick's national school, Drumcondra, Dublin 9; (6) Deputy Briscoe — the need for special centres of detention for persons on remand; (7) Deputy O'Hanlon — the need to ensure that business people who improve their premises are not penalised in view of the concern of many ratepayers in smaller towns whose rates are increased when they improve their shopfronts whereas if they move to a designated area in a larger town they receive tax relief; (8) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the progress made on science and technology issues in the light of the Travers task force; (9) Deputy Keogh — the statement by the Garda Síochána on 21 June, 1996, that the investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse in Monageer, County Wexford, was inadequate; (10) Deputy Frances Fitzgerald — the pollution problem and the recent fish kill in the River Dodder; (11) Deputy Ó Cuív — the arrangements the Minister for Education has made to ensure that secondary school education is made available in County Galway to female students who are entitled to the remote areas grant in view of the refusal to grant-aid pupils who wish to attend the only girls' boarding school in the county; (12) Deputy Dukes — the forthcoming reducations in teaching staff in three hundred primary schools; (3) Deputy O'Donnell — the circumstances of the death of a remand prisoner in St. Patrick's Institution, Dublin, on 23 June, 1996; (14) Deputy Morley — the need to consider obliging owners of livestock marts to take out insurance or bonds to indemnify farmers against losses in view of the commercial failure and possible closure of Swinford Cattle Mart, County Mayo, and the consequential losses incurred by a large number of its farming customers; (15) Deputy O'Donoghue — the death of a young man in St. Patrick's Institution, Dublin, on 23 June, 1996; (16) Deputy Hugh Byrne — the failure by the European Union to offer adequate compensation to Irish beef farmers affected by the BSE crisis; (17) Deputy Flanagan — the issues relating to the statement by the Garda Síochána about sexual abuse allegations in Monageer, County Wexford; (18) Deputy Deasy — the need to conduct a review of conditions at St. Mary's primary school, Dungarvan, County Waterford, with a view to having it classified as disadvantaged and (19) Deputy O'Dea — the urgent need to introduce a system whereby movement of convicted paedophiles within this jurisdiction can be monitored.
The matters raised by the following Deputies have been selected for discussion: Deputies O'Hanlon, Keogh, O'Donoghue and Hugh Byrne.