Dáil debates

Thursday, 13 March 2008

1:00 pm

Photo of Jack WallJack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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I 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 Ruairí Quinn — the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 20 February 2008; (2) Deputy Michael D. Higgins — the urgent need for Galway Educate Together national school, which having undertaken a detailed process of planning for the next four years, to be allocated the full number of mainstream teachers required, namely, nine, as opposed to an allocation of less than nine, the school's number of pupils making the retention of all teachers necessary; (3) 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; (4) Deputy Willie Penrose — the need to sanction the construction of a new school at Sonna, Slanemor, Mullingar, County Westmeath; (5) Deputy Mary Alexandra White — the need to undertake an audit of coarse fish in Irish rivers; (6) Deputy Joe Costello — the need to address the asylum applications of persons (details supplied); (7) Deputy Joan Burton — the failure to provide the promised gymnasium for Castleknock community college and the promised extension for St. Brigid's national school, Beechpark, Castleknock; (8) Deputy Joanna Tuffy — the steps to be taken to ensure the Rath Lugh monument is protected; and (9) Deputy Chris Andrews — to ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to intervene to ensure the twin chimneys on the Poolbeg peninsula are provided with protected status as a matter of urgency and that he liaise with the local authority on the issue.

The matters raised by Deputies Quinn, Penrose, Tuffy and White have been selected for discussion.