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 Cregan – the proposed sale and replacement of small rural Garda stations and the need to have Galbally Garda station, County Limerick, retained; (2) Deputy Costello – the need to ensure that the Irish film and television industry is promoted and the jobs of workers protected through retention of the section 481 tax incentives; (3) Deputy Upton – the need to rectify the totally inadequate system of dealing with teachers of art who had endeavoured to qualify through the Department's technical schools system; (4) Deputy Healy – the urgent need to reverse the cutbacks in the community employment schemes and to restore the scheme numbers to 28,000, as agreed with the social partners, in view of the excellent work done by these schemes in areas like Dundrum, Knockavilla and Donaskeigh in County Tipperary; (5) Deputy Cowley – the need to introduce a new category for CEP which will allow people with disabilities, those over 55 years of age, and those in long-term unemployment to remain on the scheme, and whether the Minister favours such a change especially in the light of a rumoured review of the present criteria for CE schemes; (6) Deputy Ó Snodaigh – the need for the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to take immediate action to prevent the closure of Liberties Recycling Training and Development, a valuable local drugs task force project which employs 52 people from the three Dublin south central local drugs task force areas in the socially valuable enterprise of waste management through textile recycling; and (7) Deputy Gregory – the lack of day facilities for young adults with an intellectual disability in Dublin city.
The matters raised by Deputies Cregan, Costello, Upton and Gregory have been selected for discussion.