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 Durkan — if the Minister will take steps to address the issues now likely to affect the postal and packaging service; (2) Deputy Ring — the Minister's plans to provide a permanent site for a school in County Mayo (details supplied); (3) Deputy Seán Ryan — the urgent need for a post-primary school in Donabate, Dublin; (4) Deputy Cowley — if the Minister is aware that there is a total cessation of all elective orthopaedic operations at the Mayo orthopaedic unit; (5) Deputy Connolly — to discuss the resolution to the ongoing difficulties of more than 100 women arising from their maltreatment at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; (6) Deputy Lynch — the reasons for the ongoing delay in the provision of the new BreastCheck unit in Cork; (7) Deputy Ó Caoláin — that the Minister establish a redress board for those women victims of malpractice at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; (8) Deputy McManus — the closure of DART services on the south side of Dublin and Wicklow at weekends for the summer months and its consequences; (9) Deputy O'Sullivan — if the Minister will approve funding for a resource centre in Limerick under the equal opportunities child care programme; (10) Deputy Gormley — the growing problem of uncontrolled burning of waste which is a major threat to the environment and public health; (11) Deputy Perry — that the Minister appoint a task force incorporating IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland to treat Sligo as a special case for job creation in 2005; (12) Deputy Sargent — the Minister's plans to implement the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands 1971, given the ongoing demise and degrading of many wetlands in Ireland in recent years; (13) Deputy Boyle — that the Minister address the additional job losses within the Dairygold company in Cork city and Mallow; and (14) Deputy Costello — that the Minister publish the Nally report on the Omagh bombing.
The matters raised by Deputies Perry, McManus, O'Sullivan and Gormley have been selected for discussion.