John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Ceann Comhairle)
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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 John O'Mahony — what plans the Minister has to introduce a special participation initiative for indoor sports; (2) Deputy Kathleen Lynch — the capacity of the National Rehabilitation Hospital to cope with the number of patients who require rehabilitative treatment; (3) Deputy Joe Carey — to allow the application of Barefield national school, Ennis, County Clare for a major extension to move to tender stage in the next round of project announcements to be made by her Department; (4) Deputy Niall Collins — the need to include Caherconlish in County Limerick in the catchment area of St. John the Baptist Community School in Hospital, County Limerick; (5) Deputy Willie Penrose — to take steps immediately to sanction the construction of a new school at Sonna, Slanemor, Mullingar, County Westmeath, as same is required in the context of significant intake of pupils in the past few years and the consequent overcrowding of classrooms in the old school building; (6) Deputy Tom Hayes — the position regarding the 23 bed, acute care unit in South Tipperary Hospital; (7) Deputy Michael D. Higgins — the urgent need for Galway Educate Together national school, having undertaken a detailed process of planning for the next four years, to be allocated the full number of mainstream teachers required — that is nine teachers as opposed to an allocation of fewer than nine — the school's number of pupils making the retention of all nine teachers necessary; (8) Deputy Olwyn Enright — the difficulty being experienced by sports clubs and organisations in obtaining deeds from the Chief State Solicitor's office; (9) Deputy Mary Alexandra White — the need to undertake an audit of coarse fish in Irish rivers, which are undergoing serious depletion due to over-fishing, which could result in a dramatic decline in coarse fish stocks with serious consequences for riverine biodiversity; and (10) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — the need to urgently provide the necessary funds to build a much needed youth and community resource centre in Foxfield-St. John Parish, Kilbarrack Dublin 5.

The matters raised by Deputies Kathleen Lynch, Tom Hayes, Enright and Collins have been selected for discussion.