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 Joanna Tuffy — the need to provide additional permanent accommodation and undertake refurbishment works at St. Brigid's national school, Palmerstown, Dublin; (2) Deputy Joe Costello — the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to take appropriate measures to ensure that churches that have been deconsecrated are secured and maintained as part of the national heritage and that those who perpetrated the vandalism on the Methodist Church, Jones's Road, Dublin 3, are prosecuted and made restore the church; (3) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell — to ask the Minister for Health and Children when the 2008 development funding will be provided for the provision of adult day service places for nine school leavers who attended the Daughters of Charity, Lisnagry, Limerick, for the intellectually disabled; (4) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — the urgent need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to report to Dáil Éireann on the withdrawal of the developers Stanley Holdings from a deal with Dublin City Council for the development of a 9.3 hectare site for a town square and associated housing in Belmayne, Dublin 13, which will have a massively negative impact on local residents and the newly established north fringe urban district; and if he will make a statement on the matter; (5) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh — the need for the Department of Education and Science to immediately allow the works promised for St Brigid's girls national school, Palmerstown, Dublin 20, to be carried out; (6) Deputy Seymour Crawford — to urge the Minister for Health and Children and the HSE to withdraw any proposals to wind down or close Monaghan General Hospital while they have totally failed to provide as good or better services which they publicly guaranteed; (7) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the need for the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, to intervene directly to require the Health Service Executive not to proceed with its plan to remove, by the end of November, all acute medical services from Monaghan General Hospital to Cavan General Hospital, the consequences of which will undoubtedly entail great inconvenience, unnecessary suffering and in some cases the avoidable deaths of patients; (8) Deputy Olivia Mitchell — the impact of the withdrawal from Protestant fee-paying schools of the support services grant, the unilateral breaking of the formal agreement between former Minister Donogh O'Malley and Church of Ireland bishops representing all Protestant faith based schools, the effective deprivation of Protestant faith children from receiving an education within the ethos chose by their parents given that the number of such schools in the State is limited to 21 schools in just 13 counties and that for a paltry saving the Minister has arbitrarily ended the long-standing acceptance of the necessity to facilitate Protestant ethos education for disadvantaged children of that faith; (9) Deputy James Reilly — the closure of Hedgestown national school, Lusk, north County Dublin, caused by a health and safety notifiable incident, namely, a collapsed asbestos roof and ceiling and the continuing danger to 82 primary school children from asbestos and a school which is unfit for purpose, and to raise the urgent need for new replacement school under the rapid development programme; and (10) Deputy Lucinda Creighton — the recommendation of the Dublin and cities electoral area boundary committee that Sandymount village be divided between two separate electoral areas, which fails to take into account sections 2 and 3 of the terms of reference of the committee as established by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
The matters raised by Deputies Crawford, Ó Caoláin, Tuffy, Mitchell and Reilly have been selected for discussion.