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 Crawford – the need to have the remaining 15 per cent of County Monaghan declared severely handicapped; (2) Deputy Keaveney – the announcement of the closure of the Fingal factory, Moville, County Donegal, and the urgent need for job creation measures to be implemented in the Inishowen area; (3) Deputy Hayes – the response of the Department of the Environment and Local Government to the recommendations in the report of the working group on security of tenure and the decision to establish a commission to analyse policy in this area; (4) Deputy Haughey – the need to discuss the transfer of traffic wardens from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to Dublin Corporation; (5) Deputy Browne (Carlow-Kilkenny)– the need for the decentralisation of a Department to Carlow; (6) Deputy Finucane – the provision of extra classrooms and other facilities at the national fisheries training centre at Greencastle, County Donegal; (7) Deputy Sean Ryan – the need to discuss the safety of plastic oil storage tanks with specific regard to manufacturing standards, storage and planning regulations, if any; (8) Deputy Coveney – the need to discuss the devastation being caused by commercial long lining to the stocks of conger eel in the Ballycotton, Cork Harbour and Kinsale area and the huge impact on charter sea angling boats in the area and revenue from angling tourism; (9) Deputy Allen – the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to appoint a fourth judge to the Central Criminal Court to relieve the serious congestion and delays occurring there in trials of individuals accused of very serious crimes, and especially in view of the long delay involved in bringing to trial those accused of the murder of Thomas Harte, Ballymacthomas, Cork, who was found dead with head injuries in Cork City on 20 May 1997; (10) Deputy O'Sullivan – the need for the Minister for Health and Children to further assist voluntary organisations who provide services for people with disabilities with their development needs in the light of growing demand for their services; (11) Deputy Broughan – the urgent need for the Minister for Finance to address the issue of the use of sub-contractors in the building industry, having regard to the unofficial strike at the building site of the new offices in Leinster House today; (12) Deputy Barrett – the need to discuss the proposed closure of St. Michael's Private Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin.
The matters raised by Deputies Crawford, Browne (Carlow-Kilkenny), Broughan and Hayes have been selected for discussion.