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 Martin — the need to provide emergency funding to St. Mary's Special School in Rochestown, Cork to ensure the provision of a proper heating system; (2) Deputy Batt O'Keeffe — the need to provide funding for the replacement of the heating and electrical system at St. Mary's Special School, Rochestown, Cork given that the school has been closed on a number of occasions due to sheer cold in the classrooms; (3) Deputy Lynch — the need to devise a system whereby all exclusions from school are notified immediately to the Department of Education; (4) Deputy Ring — the need 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; (5) Deputy Seán Ryan — the effects of the phasing out of duty free facilities in 1999 and the need for the Government to reactivate this issue within the European Union; (6) Deputy Hugh Byrne — the urgent need for remedial action in view of the coastal erosion at Cullenstown, County Wexford; (7) Deputy Ó Cuív — the need to ensure that alternative training and employment is obtained for the workers who were laid off recently from the Farah plant in Galway and that a special task force be set up to oversee this work; (8) Deputy Leonard — the allocation of the biomass waste contract on Thursday, 27 February 1997; (9) Deputy Power — the cost to the Army of injuries caused to soldiers' hearing; (10) Deputy Sargent — the need to meet Fingal County Council and various representative bodies to establish a properly resourced harbour authority for Skerries and Balbriggan prior to the vesting of the two harbours in Fingal County Council; (11) Deputy Shortall — the need to put the home help service on a proper footing in order to ensure standardisation of service and rates of pay; (12) Deputy Joe Walsh — the inadequate transport and ferry services to cater for our live cattle export trade; (13) Deputy Molloy — the use of inferior UK reinforced steel being dumped on the Irish market and being used extensively in farm buildings grant-aided by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry; (14) Deputy Raphael Burke — the need for a total rethink by the Government of its decision to construct a refuse burning incinerator/power station in Fingal, County Dublin; (15) Deputy Tom Foxe — the matter of REP scheme agents and their qualifications; and (16) Deputy Lawlor — the need to clarify the position regarding drug addiction treatment programmes by the Eastern Health Board in the Blakestown and Mountview areas of Dublin 15.
The matters raised by Deputies Martin, Leonard, Joe Walsh and Power have been selected for discussion.