Séamus Pattison (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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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 Healy — the need for the Minister and the Health Service Executive to implement the High Court agreement for the provision of general hospital services in south Tipperary; (2) Deputy Deenihan — the uncertainty surrounding the funding for child care projects in County Kerry; (3) Deputy Burton — the need to renovate and expand St. Brigid's national school, Castleknock, following the masonry fall from the building; (4) Deputy Neville — school transport for the secondary school Salesian College, Pallaskenry; (5) Deputy Costello — that the Minister ensure that no asylum seeker sitting a State examination this summer will be deported during the examination period; (6) Deputy Cowley — if the Minister will address the critical situation in which the Mulranny, Achill and Ballycroy areas are left without an ambulance base; (7) Deputy Ó Caoláin — the decision of the Department of Education and Science to dismiss over 70 special needs assistants despite the shortfall of 175 such assistants throughout the State and the need for the Minister to reverse this decision and reallocate assistants where they are required and to publish her review of the proposed allocation system for special needs teachers; and (8) Deputy Gilmore — the case of a person who is suffering from vCJD in a Dublin hospital.

The matters raised by Deputies Gilmore, Costello, Neville and Ó Caoláin have been selected for discussion.