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 McEntee — the need for the Minister to urgently consider the lack of facilities at a school (details supplied) in County Meath; (2) Deputy Finian McGrath — the urgent need for a public inquiry into the Stardust fire tragedy; (3) Deputy Catherine Murphy — the need for financial provisions for adoptive parents who have fostered the child prior to adoption; (4) Deputy Burton — the urgent need to take steps to ensure that places are available for all children when the new school year begins in light of the serious situation facing hundreds of families in Dublin 15 whose junior infant children have been refused a primary school place for next September; (5) Deputy O'Dowd — the need for the Minister to discuss the decision of the British Government to privatise the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant, a plant that is vulnerable to a nuclear accident or terrorist attack which could have serious consequences for generations in Ireland and, therefore, this complex should remain under direct British Government control and ownership; (6) Deputy Neville — the need for an increase in financial aid for the growing of miscantus; (7) Deputy Cowley — the need for the Minister to extend the National Treatment Purchase Fund to provide a temporary breast screening service to women in the south and west; (8) Deputies Broughan, Shortall and Costello — the need for the Minister to ensure that Temple Street children's hospital will be redeveloped on the Mater hospital campus; (9) Deputy Fiona O'Malley — the need for consideration to be given to reducing the VAT rate on condom sales in Ireland; and (10) Deputy Crowe — the need for the Minister to urgently ensure the speedy evaluation of the unique cocaine pilot project which serves all of Tallaght and to release funding to save this successful project from closing down in two weeks time.
The matters raised by Deputies Broughan, Shortall and Costello, and Deputies O'Malley and McEntee have been selected for discussion.