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 Boyle – to ask the Minister for the Environment and Local Government to comment on the co-treatment of domestic waste water with run off from transit vehicles which have carried toxic and chemical materials, a practice that is set to occur for the first time in this country at the waste water treatment plant at Fermoy, County Cork; (2) Deputy Keaveney – to ask the Minister of State with responsibility for rural development to expand the CLÁR programme into areas of Donegal North-East given the change in population trend from 1996 to 2002 which is in line with criteria laid down for the scheme; (3) Deputy Cowley – to ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the two main X-ray processors in Mayo General Hospital are out of order, the mammogram service at Mayo General Hospital in Castlebar has ceased due to the failure to replace obsolete equipment at the hospital and further barium meal scanning has ceased for the past year for the same reason; (4) Deputy Ring – to ask the Minister for Health and Children to investigate the failure of the Western Health Board to answer queries raised regarding an item of public interest; (5) Deputy O'Shea – the need for immediate action by the Minister for Transport to ensure the future of Waterford Airport; (6) Deputy Crawford – to ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the remainder of County Monaghan will be reclassified as severely handicapped; if he accepts the fact that many farmers in the parishes of Corcaghan and Aghabog had to house their cows for at least two months during this summer, whereas farmers in severely handicapped areas did not have a similar problem, and if he accepts the injustice of the situation and will have it rectified immediately; (7) Deputy Ó Snodaigh – the need for the Minister for Health and Children to prevent the downgrading of Cherry Orchard Hospital, the only infectious disease hospital in the State, from an acute hospital to a step-down hospital and to prevent the closure of the hospital's isolation units which would be vital in the event of a State-wide outbreak of infectious disease or if the country was under attack from chemical or biological weapons; and (8) Deputy O'Sullivan – the need for the Minister for Education and Science to provide funding for the replacement of six substandard classrooms at St. Nessan's national school, Mungret, County Limerick.
The matters raised by Deputies Crawford, Ó Snodaigh, O'Shea and Keaveney have been selected for discussion.