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 the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Neville — funding for mental health services; (2) Deputy Deenihan — the importance of retaining the Jeanie Johnston sailing vessel in public ownership; (3) Deputy Ó Snodaigh — the urgent need for the Minister for Health and Children to explain his decision to refuse to review the rules governing the granting of foster care allowances as requested by the Ombudsman in her annual report last week; (4) Deputy Michael D. Higgins — the urgent need for the Government to seek an independent international inquiry into reports of systematic torture and degradation of prisoners in Iraq by the United States and other coalition forces; (5) Deputy McCormack — to raise with the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the discontinuing of the crèche facilities grant to parents who have returned to full-time education; (6) Deputy Richard Bruton — the failure of the Minister to commit to the purchase of a site for a school (details supplied) which has been reserved by Dublin City Council at Santry; (7) Deputy Shortall — the urgent need for the Minister to approve the purchase of a site at Castletimon for a school (details supplied); (8) Deputy Burton — the ongoing crisis at Blanchardstown — James Connolly Memorial — hospital and the failure of the Government to fully commission the new building including the accident and emergency unit, theatres and the intensive care unit; (9) Deputy Boyle — to discuss the failure of the Government's so-called "decentralisation" programme that is seeing a proposal for Department of Agriculture and Food offices and specialised laboratories in Cork city to be moved to Macroom; (10) Deputy Hogan — the need for the Minister for Transport to ensure that the agreement reached between the National Roads Authority and the Irish Farmers Association in respect of road developments is fully implemented; (11) Deputy Harkin — to ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the deadline of 28 May 2004 for payment of moneys owed on non-resident accounts.
The matters raised by Deputies Boyle, Richard Bruton, Shortall and McCormack have been selected for discussion.