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 Ring – the assistance which will be made available immediately to help the people affected by the recent landslides in North Mayo; (2) Deputy Naughten – the need for the Minister for Education to provide classroom assistance to children with special needs in mainstream education; (3) Deputy Kirk – the need to consider legislative change where applications are made to the courts to stymie industrial development when all planning procedures have been exhausted by objectors; (4) Deputy Michael Moynihan – the need to provide temporary accommodation at St. Brendan's national school, Hollymount, Rathmore, County Kerry; (5) Deputy Crowe – the incarceration of anti-bin tax protesters, including a Member of this House, and the continuing campaign against the bin charges taking place right across Dublin city and county; (6) Deputy Cowley – the need to set up a special Government disaster fund for the Inver-Pollathomas region of County Mayo in view of the massive scale of damage resulting from the recent landslides; (7) Deputy Rabbitte – the extent of the tax evasion revealed in the list of tax defaulters published by the Revenue Commissioners on 26 September, particularly in regard to bogus non-resident accounts and the need for continuing measures to stamp out tax evasion; (8) Deputy Boyle – to ask the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government to make a statement on the need to provide a repository for radioactive waste, in light of many recent reports showing such waste being stored in inappropriate locations; (9) Deputy Morgan – the need for full services to be restored at Louth County Hospital, Dundalk to facilitate the health needs of the ever growing population in the Dundalk region; that, in particular, full services at the children's ward, the maternity unit and the gynaecological ward, all of which were closed by the NEHB and the Department of Health and Children, are restored immediately; that adequate staff be appointed to all departments and that additional provision of accident and emergency services be developed to end the lengthy queues at the hospital; (10) Deputy Kehoe – when the new St. John's Hospital building, Enniscorthy, County Wexford will commence; and the stage this new building is currently at; (11) Deputy Gormley – the need for the Minister for Health and Children to initiate a non-statutory inquiry into a case in light of the increasing information which shows that the operation may have been conducted in preference to circumcision and became a religious consideration
The matters raised by Deputies Rabbitte, Kirk, Ring and Cowley have been selected for discussion.