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 Mattie McGrath — the proposed regulation changes in credit unions; (2) Deputy Brian O'Shea — the need for a speech and language therapy service at St. Joseph's special school, Parnell Street, Waterford and at St. Martin's special school, Kilcohan, Waterford; (3) Deputy Pat Breen — the future education needs of children with special needs in west Clare; (4) Deputy Seymour Crawford — the failure of many farm families and self-employed people to receive essential farm assist or jobseeker's allowance; (5) Deputy Joe Costello — the plans to resolve the bed and space problems in the accident and emergency unit of the Mater Hospital, Dublin; (6) Deputy Michael D'Arcy — the need to reduce the cost of finger post signs; (7) Deputy James Bannon — the need for a new community college in Kilbeggan, County Westmeath; (8) Deputy Dan Neville — the care of patients with Alzheimer's disease; (9) Deputy Seán Sherlock — the need to progress the work necessary to ensure that the fish pass at the weir on the Blackwater, Fermoy, County Cork is in compliance with EU law and takes account of other local activities; (10) Deputy Michael McGrath — the need to proceed with the extension to Scoil Nioclais, Frankfield, Douglas, Cork; (11) Deputy Terence Flanagan — the need to provide additional funding to schools to support children who are dyslexic; (12) Deputy Michael Ring — to ask the Minister for Transport if he has met with representatives of multinational companies in the west who have stated that road conditions are threatening the future of their businesses; what plans there are to upgrade the N5 and if he will make a full statement on the matter; (13) Deputy Catherine Byrne — the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to address the ongoing maintenance problems in the Dolphin House complex, Dublin, where residents are living in deplorable conditions; (14) Deputy Michael D. Higgins — the disastrous consequences of the breach of faith by Government with regard to unemployed Access workers returning to education, which may lead to the possible discontinuation of courses begun by 50% of those students in GMIT and NUIG; the confusion that has been created between social welfare entitlement and back to education allowance; the urgent need for the matter to be restored to that for which the students had a legitimate expectation; and the urgent need for the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to a recent presentation made at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Science; (15) Deputy Thomas Byrne — the Minister's commitment to the IDA business park, Drogheda, County Meath; (16) Deputy Ciarán Lynch — to ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the restoration of the 10th mainstream teacher for Scoil Barra Naofa Cailíní, roll No. 19232C in view of the changed circumstances and a projected enrolment for 2010 to 2011 of 269 pupils; (17) Deputy Richard Bruton — the provision of services for children with Asperger's spectrum disorder and autism on the north side of Dublin; (18) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell — to ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation what plans he has for funding the recommendations of the mid-west jobs taskforce; (19) Deputy Tom Hayes — in light of reports that ten acute medical beds are to be closed in South Tipperary General Hospital, can the Minister for Health and Children deal with concern over the proposed closure of beds which could lead to the downgrading of services in the hospital; and (20) Deputy Michael Kennedy — the need to have adequate measures in place to prevent vandalism at archaeological sites.
The matters raised by Deputies Thomas Byrne, Michael Kennedy, Seán Sherlock and Richard Bruton have been selected for discussion.