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 Shortall — the problem of truck parking in residential areas; (2) 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; (3) Deputy Flaherty — the urgent need for a classroom assistant for St. Patrick's national school, Drumcondra, Dublin 9; (4) Deputy Deasy — the need to conduct a review of conditions at St. Mary's primary school, Dungar-van, County Waterford, with a view to having it classified as disadvantaged; (5) Deputy Foley — the need to increase the allocation to Tralee vocational education committee for special education needs from the 1,100 hours set for 1996-97 to the 4,000 hours allowed in the 1995-96 term; (6) Deputy Seán Kenny — the inordinate delay by Fingal County Council in making a special amenity area order for the high amenity area of the East Mountain, Howth, County Dublin and whether the Minister can make this order; (7) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the action, if any, the Minister for Justice intends to take in view of the dismissal by a court of a case (details supplied) on 27 June 1996, and the public outcry which has resulted; (8) Deputy Jacob — the urgent need for official authorisation by the Department of Education of the sale and transfer of the old vocational school in Rathdrum, County Wicklow, by Wicklow Vocational Education Committee to Wicklow County Council in view of the fact that this matter which has been unresolved for a number of years is now widely perceived as a public scandal; (9) Deputy Broughan — the urgent need to protect the natural amenity of the East Mountain, Howth, County Dublin; (10) Deputy Sargent — the need for the Minister for Health to investigate the circumstances surrounding the case of a child (details supplied) in County Dublin who was discharged from Temple Street Hospital on four occasions while suffering from salmonella, a highly contagious condition, and the need for the hospital to follow guidelines in future so that this dangerous practice will not be repeated; (11) Deputy Ó Cuív — the need for the Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications to ensure there is equality in the cost and quality of telecommunications services throughout the State and, in particular, to ensure that peripheral regions are not unfairly discriminated against in this regard.
The matters raised by Deputies Sargent. Flaherty, Deasy and Need O'Keeffe have been selected for discussion.