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 Neville – the State's failure to provide appropriate facilities for children out of control (details supplied); (2) Deputy Ring – the increase in the waiting list for orthodontic treatment in the Western Health Board region; (3) Deputy Stanton – the need for funding to repair the badly damaged breakwater in Ballycotton and to upgrade Ballycotton harbour; (4) Deputy Coveney – the need to consult local communities and residents' groups on the location of accommodation facilities for refugees and asylum seekers in large groupings; (5) Deputy McGuinness – the need to radically reappraise the procedures used to investigate the cases of missing people and to provide support and assistance to the relatives and friends traumatised by the loss; (6) Deputy McManus – the need for the Minister for Health and Children to meet the concerns of the Irish Haemophilia Society regarding its costs and expenses arising from the proposed tribunal of inquiry; (7) Deputy Fitzgerald – the numbers of apparently unprovoked attacks on young men being reported in the Dublin area; (8) Deputy Flanagan – the waiting lists for treatment at Tullamore General Hospital; (9) Deputy Moloney – the need to include Portarlington, County Laois, in the plans for decentralisation; (10) Deputy Sean Ryan – the urgent need for additional classrooms for September, 2000 for Balscadden national school, County Dublin; (11) Deputy Theresa Ahearn – the urgent need for a CAT scan for St. Joseph's Hospital, Clonmel.
The matters raised by Deputies Ring, McManus, Theresa Ahearn and McGuinness have been selected for discussion.