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 Timmins — Government policy on rural policing; (2) Deputy Gay Mitchell — the need for the Government to appoint a Minister with responsibility for emigrant affairs to co-ordinate a response to the situation highlighted in the recent report in the British Journal of Psychiatry on Irish born immigrants in Britain; (3) Deputy Stanton — the need to make funds available to CIE to enable the company to reopen the rail link to Midleton, County Cork; (4) Deputy Ring — the plans, if any, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has to regulate or prevent public demonstrations on the main streets in Dublin and whether a section of the Phoenix Park could be used instead; (5) Deputy Jim O'Keeffe — the need to make accommodation available for the detention and assessment of a 14 year old boy in Cork, who on 23 February 1998 was again released by the court in view of the fact that there is no detention spot available for him anywhere in Ireland; (6) Deputy Spring — the need to ensure Ireland does not contribute moneys, via EU or through any other means, to the IMF which grant aids the Suharto regime in Indonesia until such time as the appalling human rights situation there is radically improved; (7) Deputy Breeda Moynihan-Cronin — the plight of 260 families in the Caherciveen, County Kerry, area who are being denied the right to dispose of turf to the local ESB power station at Deelis, Caherciveen, due to an industrial dispute; (8) Deputy Clune — the concern regarding the effectiveness of the immunisation programme as now administered by general practitioners.
The matters raised by Deputies Stanton, Spring, Timmins and Jim O'Keeffe have been selected for discussion.