I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Costello — the need to provide statutory protection for listed buildings; (2) Deputy Gallagher (Laoighis-Offaly)— the urgent need to provide a new Garda station for Tullamore, County Offaly, in view of the risk to the health and safety of the members of the Garda Síochána and the public arising from the condition of the existing station; (3) Deputy Ring — the need for the Minister for Health to instruct the Western Health Board to appoint a dentist for the Belmullet area, County Mayo, either in a temporary or permanent capacity, in view of the delays in dental treatment for young people in the area; (4) Deputy Sargent — the need to reconsider the approach being adopted to the waste management crisis in view of the fact that a year has elapsed since IBEC established the organisation Repak; (5) Deputy Tom Kitt — the question of whether troops will be sent to serve under the NATO led peacekeeping mission in former Yugoslavia; (6) Deputy Seán Ryan — the need to address the obnoxious smell emanating from the Loughshinny shore station, County Dublin, which is having an effect on the residents and on the children of Loughshinny and parts of Rush, County Dublin; (7) Deputy Lawlor — the failure of the Government to grant university status to the Dublin Institute of Technology despite the recommendations of an international review team; (8) Deputy O'Donoghue — the consequences for draft net fishermen and their families in South Kerry arising out of the decision by the Minister for the Marine to delay the opening of the draft net salmon fishing season to 15 May 1997; (9) Deputy Broughan — the need to reexamine the regulations and guidelines on the erection of microwave antennae; (10) Deputy Joe Walsh — the question of E coli infection and its life threatening implications; (11) Deputy de Valera — the need to take steps to assist with the restoration of St. Michan's Church in Dublin, which is in danger of closure; (12) Deputy Quill — the establishment of the cause of the fatal accident at Kill on the Naas dual carriageway on 23 January 1997, where a 29 year old truck driver was killed; (13) Deputy Frances Fitzgerald — the need to address food safety arising from the recent withdrawal of a baby food product and the death from E coli; (14) Deputy Power — the death of a three year old child as a result of an illness associated with the E coli bacterium.
The matters raised by Deputies Joe Walsh, de Valera, Lawlor and Quill have been selected for discussion.