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 Costello — the action the Minister is taking to address the growing problem of the importation and distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine in Ireland; (2) Deputy Hogan — if the Minister will ensure approval for a new renal dialysis service at a clinic (details supplied) in Kilkenny in the interests of local patients; (3) Deputy Fox and Deputy McManus — that the Minister ensure that funding is provided for a pre-school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; (4) Deputy Hayes — to ask the Minister the reason a cap has been placed on community employment schemes; (5) Deputy Connaughton and Deputy Ring — to ask the Minister to make a special case to President Bush at the St. Patrick's Day ceremony to expedite the Kennedy-McCain proposals; (6) Deputy Sherlock — the need for the Minister to confirm if beet growers and the Irish sugar industry will be liable for a €25 million restructuring levy in 2006; (7) Deputy Neville — the Adare sewerage scheme; (8) Deputy Gilmore — that the Office of Public Works stop work on the erection of a new telecommunications mast at Shankill Garda station, County Dublin; (9) Deputy Allen — the funding of the new airport terminal at Cork Airport; (10) Deputy Ó Caoláin — the need for the Minister to intervene in the controversial dismissal of three NCT testers from their posts at the National Car Test centre in Monaghan; (11) Deputy Bruton — if the Minister will give approval to the establishment for Dublin's north side of a new school operating the applied behaviour analysis method; (12) Deputy Cowley — to ask the Minister the reason for the gross irregularities in the reporting of a fatal accident involving a person (details supplied); (13) Deputy McCormack — to ask the Minister the reason for cutbacks in hours of home help to elderly people in their homes; and (14) Deputy Morgan — to ask the Minister his views on the sacking of a shop steward of the union Mandate from their position at Dunnes Stores in Crumlin.

The matters raised by Deputies McCormack, Connaughton and Ring, Sherlock and Fox and McManus have been selected for discussion.