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 Alan Shatter — the provision of a permanent school building for Holy Trinity national school, Glencairn, Leopardstown, Dublin 18; (2) Deputy Jan O'Sullivan — the need to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Ann Moriarty and Edel Kelly; (3) Deputy Dan Neville — the flooding of Newcastle West and surrounding areas on 1 August 2008; (4) Deputies James Reilly and Pat Breen — the urgent need to establish an independent inquiry into the misdiagnoses of breast cancer at Ennis General Hospital, including testing at St. James's Hospital and Limerick General Hospital and the need for the Minister to institute an independent inquiry; (5) Deputy John O'Mahony — the need to extend the farm waste management scheme; (6) Deputies Seymour Crawford and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the preservation of services at Monaghan General Hospital; (7) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to intervene immediately to reverse the decision of the Health Service Executive to transfer all acute medical services from Monaghan General Hospital to Cavan General Hospital, placing thousands of people in County Monaghan in grave danger and placing an intolerable burden of additional work on staff in Cavan General Hospital where not a single additional bed is to be provided; (8) Deputy Jimmy Deenihan — the need to undertake an investigation into the recent bog slide at Macca, Lyreacrompane, County Kerry; (9) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd — the need to discuss the recent report from EGIS consultants which raised very serious concerns about safety systems in Dublin Port tunnel; (10) Deputy Simon Coveney — the need for the Minister for Transport to outline in detail his approach to ongoing concerns at Cork airport in relation to debt and the need to appoint a new chairperson to the board of Cork airport and to outline timeframe of when he intends to enable an independent and functional Cork airport; (11) Deputy Timmy Dooley — the need for the Minister of Health and Children to put in place measures to restore confidence for cancer patients at Ennis General Hospital; (12) Deputy Joe Costello — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to fund adequately the Irish Family Planning Association so that it is able to provide a full range of services; (13) Deputy Michael D. Higgins — the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to indicate the measures he has taken to address the lead contamination issues that have arisen in certain housing areas in Galway and if such an issue was examined in previous examinations of the water supply, and to indicate what steps he proposes to take; (14) Deputy Róisín Shortall — the need to maintain the independence of the Combat Poverty Agency; (15) Deputy Lucinda Creighton — the sudden decision of the Department of Defence to evict the residents of a block in the Defence Forces married quarters of Cathal Brugha Barracks by means of a letter dated 11 September 2008, demanding that the residences be vacated by 30 October 2008, and to afford the Minister for Defence the opportunity to remedy his failure to honour agreements entered into in the early 1990s to dispose of the properties to the occupants in line with the provisions of the old local authority tenant purchase scheme; and (16) Deputy David Stanton — the need for the Minister to debate the closure of Swissco Limited at Little Island in Cork with a loss of up to 150 jobs and to outline what action, if any, the Government and State agencies have taken or will take to try to avert the closure.
The matters raised by Deputies Seymour Crawford and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Róisín Shortall, Jimmy Deenihan and John O'Mahony have been selected for discussion.