I wish to inform 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 Clune – the need to ensure that the Irish Blood Transfusion Service is not reduced to a single site testing facility; (2) Deputy Wall – the need to review maintenance grants for third level students to ensure that they reflect the rise in inflation and that persons in receipt of benefits under the Programme for Prosperity and Fairness will not be marginally over the limits; (3) Deputy Broughan – the urgent need to implement a strategic housing plan for Dublin in view of the latest figures for homelessness in the city; (4) Deputy Browne (Wexford)– the need to have the natural gas grid extended to Wexford as a matter of urgency; (5) Deputy Connaughton – the need to provide adequate protection for first time house buyers against builders who carry out inferior work and who go out of business before completing a new house; (6) Deputy Shatter – the need to review guidelines for foreign travel or acceptance of corporate hospitality by members of the Garda Síochána and civilian staff of the force in circumstances where such travel or hospitality is funded by companies with which the Garda Síochána conducts business; (7) Deputy Penrose – the need to provide additional accommodation and facilities to deal with overcrowding at Gainstown national school, Mullingar, County Westmeath; (8) Deputy Crawford – the need to prevent the closure of the maternity unit at Monaghan general hospital because of withdrawal of insurance and to make a clear statement regarding the development and upgrading of the hospital; (9) Deputy Neville – the need for the Minister to restrict the sale of paracetamol products to pharmacy outlets and (10) Deputy Coveney – the urgent need to discuss barriers to development at the docklands at Passage West due to dangers posed by the IFI factory on the other side of the river. The matters raised by Deputies Penrose, Crawford, Neville and Shatter have been selected for discussion.
