Séamus Pattison (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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I wish to inform 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 Ring — the help that is available through the flood relief package for victims of recent floods in County Mayo and the long-term plans to resolve the issue; (2) Deputy Durkan — the serious and ongoing issue of overcrowding on commuter trains from Sallins, Hazelhatch, Kilcock, Maynooth and Leixlip to the city and return whereby passengers more often than not have to remain standing for the entire journey with consequent health and safety implications and the need for the Minister to issue instructions to increase the frequency of the service and the capacity of the trains with enhanced feeder bus backup while awaiting implementation of Transport 21; (3) Deputy Cregan — the need for the Minister for Education and Science to provide funding for the provision of a replacement playground at a school; (4) Deputy McHugh — to discuss the threatened closure of Seamount College, Kinvara, County Galway; (5) Deputy Cowley — that the Minister takes urgent action to ensure that nurses are treated equitably in our hospitals as regards their working conditions; (6) Deputy Connolly — to discuss the proposed sale by Coillte of 73 acres of Killykeen Forest Park, County Cavan, to commercial interests; (7) Deputy Pat Breen — the issue of the proposed Scariff, Feakle, Quilty-Mullagh sewerage scheme in County Clare; if the Minister would update me on the current situation with regard to these schemes and when the Minister expects these schemes to commence; (8) Deputy Sargent — that the Minister take on board the case for the summer works grant made by St. Joseph's secondary school, Rush, County Dublin, which has fast-growing pupil numbers currently at 420 and no remedial works in the school grounds since 1981 and that the case for extra classrooms and PE facilities be also taken on board following a halting of the process to provide extra accommodation; (9) Deputy Costello — the reason St. Margaret's Nursing Home has issued eviction notices to patients and two persons in particular (details supplied); (10) Deputy Deenihan — the delay in allowing Castleisland sewerage scheme stage 2 to go to tender in view of the importance of this scheme to the future development of Castleisland town; and (11) Deputy Lynch — the refusal of staff to move to the new maternity unit at Cork University Hospital and the need for the participation of the Labour Relations Commission to help resolve the matter.

The matters raised by Deputies Ring, Costello, Lynch and Cregan have been selected for discussion.