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 John Bruton — the reported details regarding archaeological excavations licensed in the State between 1997 and 2002; (2) Deputy Connolly — that consideration be given to the restoration of the rail link between Drogheda, Navan and Kingscourt, County Cavan; (3) Deputy Durkan — the circumstances whereby a prisoner serving a long-term sentence was shot while on temporary release; (4) Deputy Wall — the current overcrowding at Naas hospital and the need for the reopening of the respite and assessment unit at St. Vincent's Hospital, Athy; (5) Deputy Ó Caoláin — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to act decisively to ensure the reopening of the maternity unit at Monaghan General Hospital following the birth at 5 a. m. on 11 February of a child in yet another roadside delivery en route from Monaghan to Cavan General Hospital; (6) Deputy Gormley — the announcement by the Sisters of the Holy Faith that St. Mary's girls' school, Haddington Road, is to close, the effect this will have on the Dublin South-East constituency which has a growing population and insufficient girls' secondary school, the need for the Department of Education and Science to take all necessary steps to ensure the school remains open; (7) Deputy Gregory — the renewed calls for an inquiry into the Grangegorman murders in 1997; (8) Deputy Olivia Mitchell — to discuss recent further revelations of an indeterminate delay in the setting up by the Minister of a long-promised independent inquiry into the delay by the then BTSB in informing blood donors of positive test results for hepatitis C in the early 1990s and related matters; (9) Deputy Kirk — that the Minister raise with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland the matter of a British Army incursion at Ferryhill, Omeath, County Louth, on Wednesday, 11 February 2004 at approximately 7.50 p.m. and seek an assurance for the people of the area that such an incident will not occur again.
The matters raised by the following Deputies have been selected for discussion: Deputies Wall, Durkan, Gregory and John Bruton.