Brendan Howlin (Wexford, 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 Leo Varadkar — the need for the Minister for Foreign Affairs make a statement to the Dáil on the efforts he is making to support the struggle for individual freedom, human rights, press freedom and democracy in the People's Republic of China and whether he will use the opportunity of the Olympic Games to increase pressure on the socialist regime; (2) Deputy James Bannon — the need for the Minister to give the go-ahead for Ballymahon Vocational School's refurbishment project to go to tender without further procrastination or reconsideration on her part and if she will make a statement on the matter; (3) Deputy Martin Ferris — the need for a dedicated cystic fibrosis unit at Cork University Hospital; (4) Deputy Jan O'Sullivan — to ensure that commitments to provide extra beds and community teams for child and adolescent psychiatry are fulfilled this year and to urgently address the gap in services for 16 to 18 year olds; (5) Deputy Pat Rabbitte — the provision of speech therapy for a child age 16 years who cannot access speech therapy services at St. John of Gods, Islandbridge where she attends and who is not allowed access to community speech therapy services because she attends special needs education; (6) Deputy Michael McGrath — that the new accident and emergency unit at the Mercy Hospital, Cork, be opened without further delay; (7) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the need to respond to information released under the Freedom of Information Act showing that the HSE has failed to spend €25 million allocated to it in 2006 and 2007 for the provision of mental health services and the need for the Minister to ensure that a plan is put in place for the use of this funding to address acute need in this key area of health care; (8) Deputy Dan Neville — the need for funding for "A Vision for Change"; (9) Deputy Ulick Burke — the needs of the staff and pupils of Eglish national school, Ahascragh, County Galway, the immediate replacement of the school and in the interest of health and safety to provide temporary accommodation in the meantime; (10) Deputy Alan Shatter — the failure to grant permission to the board of management of St. Colmcille's, Knocklyon, Dublin 16 to proceed to apply for planning permission for the construction of essential new primary school facilities and the Government's failure to sanction the funding required to construct the proposed new school; (11) Deputy Jim O'Keeffe — the need for a major extension to a school in County Cork; (12) Deputy Ciarán Lynch - to ask the Minister for Transport if he considers that the proposed Cork Airport Authority will be sustainable if it is forced to start life with an inherited debt of €100 million or, as proposed by the Cassells report, if it is forced to sell off its land assets to reduce the debt; (13) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell — the need to bring forward extra measures to combat the gangland crime in Limerick; and (14) Deputy Kathleen Lynch — the provision of funding to Cork City Council for the replacement of mobile homes at halting sites.

The matters raised by Deputies Michael McGrath, Jim O'Keeffe, Kieran O'Donnell and Kathleen Lynch have been selected for discussion.