Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I wish to advise the House that 16 Deputies have submitted matters under Standing Order 21: (1) Deputy Thomas Byrne — the need for greatly increased on-the-spot fines and other penalties for illegal dumping; (2) Deputy John O'Mahony — the urgent need to sanction the waste water treatment plant for a sewerage scheme in County Mayo (details supplied); (3) Deputy Mary O'Rourke — to ask the Minister for Heath and Children if she will ask the HSE to review the situation at Temple Street Children's Hospital and in particular to review the situation of a particular child patient at that hospital (details supplied); (4) Deputy Tom Sheahan — the ongoing provision of funds for An Moncaí Ocrach in Dingle; (5) Deputy Kathleen Lynch — to discuss the paediatric diabetes services at Cork University Hospital and, in particular, the decision not to appoint a replacement for the paediatric dietitian who is due to go on maternity leave shortly; (6) Deputy James Bannon — the reason that application forms in respect of funding under the lottery sports grants for 2009 are not yet available; (7) Deputies Thomas McEllistrim and Jimmy Deenihan — the need to find replacement jobs as well as to provide upskilling and retraining opportunities for workers made redundant by the closure of the Amann plant at Tralee, County Kerry; (8) Deputy Paul Kehoe — to discuss the fact that the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is not in a position to sanction the recruitment by county councils of lifeguards for beaches on coastal counties around the country; if funding is not made available through the Department of Finance for these temporary positions, the inability of county councils to recruit lifeguards will have a detrimental effect on our tourism industry at a time when the industry can least afford it; (9) Deputy Mary Alexandra White — the discovery of toxic heavy metals on a farm in County Kilkenny; (10) Deputies Joe McHugh, Dinny McGinley and Joe Carey — the postponement of the roll-out of BreastCheck facilities in County Clare and in the north-west; (11) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell — with 450 Dell workers in Limerick being made redundant tomorrow, Thursday, 30 April, to ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she expects the European globalisation adjustment fund will be available in Limerick to help these workers; and (12) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to urgently request the Dublin city manager to immediately proceed with a number of long planned regeneration projects in Moatview, Belcamp and Darndale Estates, Dublin 17, given the commitments that have been made in the past decade on these critical projects to communities in Priorswood and Darndale Belcamp, Dublin 17, and if he will make a statement on the matter.

The matters raised by Deputies Thomas McEllistrim and Jimmy Deenihan, Joe McHugh, Dinny McGinley and Joe Carey, and Mary Alexandra White have been selected for discussion.

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