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 Durkan – the need to discuss the reference to publications in the Oireachtas Library in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 195 of 6 October 1999; (2) Deputy Broughan – the urgent need to provide substantial resources in the budget for youth education, sport and leisure to support the anti-joyriding task force in Dublin north-east; (3) Deputy Stanton – the need to enable escorts to be employed on school buses transporting children with special needs to and from school; (4) Deputy Rabbitte – the measures being put in place to ensure the employment of the 2,800 workers under the whole time job initiative programme; (5) Deputy Wall – the urgent need for an increase in the financial assistance to people under the rent subsidy scheme due to the huge rise in private rents over the past 18 months; (6) Deputy Currie – the concern about safety on the railways in the light of the crush at Tara Street station on 8 November; (7) Deputy Fitzgerald – the compliance by bed and breakfast and other temporary accommodation in the Dublin area, used to accommodate homeless people and refugees, with the departmental guidelines on fire safety; (8) Deputy Shatter – the arrangements necessary to facilitate parents obtaining places for their children in the new Knocklyon post primary school for the school year commencing September 2000; (9) Deputy Shortall – the need to address the serious discrepancy in the new drugs refund scheme where full-time students aged between 23 and 25 years old are subject to the individual limit of £42 per month regardless of their income; (10) Deputy Hayes – the need to provide emergency accommodation in existing barracks or other facilities lying idle due to the escalating problem of homelessness in the Dublin area; (11) Deputy Neville – the crisis in the prison service, particularly the conditions at Mountjoy Prison; (12) Deputy Sargent – the need to introduce an independent living fund to assist those with a disability to participate fully in society.
The matters raised by Deputies Rabbitte, Currie, Broughan and Stanton have been selected for discussion.