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 Tom Hayes — the need to provide new buildings for St. Patrick's national school and for Fethard Convent national school, Fethard, County Tipperary; (2) Deputies Seymour Crawford and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the need to make provision for additional hospital beds in the north east; (3) Deputy Eamon Scanlon — the proposed closure of the Stiefel plant in Sligo; (4) Deputy Joe Carey — the implementation of the recommendations in the report of the mid-west task force; (5) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh — the payment of the Christmas bonus to recipients of social welfare payments; (6) Deputy James Bannon — the provision of a motorised transport grant to a disabled person who has a child with an intellectual impairment; (7) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — the need to protect aviation jobs in north and west Dublin and in the mid-west; (8) Deputy Ulick Burke — the need to appoint a dentist to the Loughrea-Portumna area of County Galway; (9) Deputy Lucinda Creighton — the need to introduce a moratorium on the building of incinerators; (10) Deputy Seán Sherlock — the need to improve conditions at Scoil Bhríde national school, Rathcormac, County Cork; (11) Deputy Róisín Shortall — in view of the ongoing public concern about the levels of crime and its impact on local communities, the need to ensure that the courts use the legislation available to them; (12) Deputy Jimmy Deenihan — the loss of jobs at the Beru plant, Tralee, County Kerry; (13) Deputy Máire Hoctor — the need to maintain the use of local place names, townlands and other areas on the introduction of postal codes nationwide; (14) Deputy Frank Feighan — to ask the Minister of Education and Science if, in view of recent computer commitments, he can confirm that this decision will affect the Ballinamore second level school project and can he again give a guarantee that this urgent project will remain on track and also can he confirm the up-to-date position on this school; (15) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell — the need to provide funding for planned capital works at JFK Memorial national school, Ennis Road, Limerick; and (16) Deputy Joe McHugh — the need to address indirect taxation strategy in order to increase the Exchequer VAT intake from Border counties.
The matters raised by Deputies Kieran O'Donnell, Joe Carey, Seymour Crawford and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Máire Hoctor have been selected for discussion.