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 Mary Upton — the need to ensure that Drimnagh Castle secondary school, Walkinstown, Dublin 12, be immediately given the promised funding for the school's leaving certificate technology programme; (2) Deputy Charles Flanagan — to raise with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the impact and consequences of the proposed cuts to the budgets of the Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission; (3) Deputy Pat Breen — the situation regarding the chronic overcrowding at the accident and emergency department at Ennis General Hospital in recent days; the need for the Minister for Health and Children to outline the situation regarding the proposed hospital development programme at the hospital; when this capital development project will be proceeding and if funding has been allocated for the project; (4) Deputy Bernard Durkan — the urgent and pressing issue of mortgage supplement in the case of a woman where the HSE is only prepared to assist on a 50% basis as the mortgage is in joint names but there is a barring order against her husband and if the Minister will make a statement on the matter; (5) Deputy Dinny McGinley — an tionchar diúltach a bheidh ag cinntí buiséid a rinneadh le déanaí ar Phobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair; (6) Deputy James Bannon — the need for the Minister for Finance to establish a mortgage rescue scheme to minimise mortgage repossession, which is a potentially major cause of homelessness; (7) Deputy Thomas McEllistrim — the need for the Minister for Education and Science to encourage and support the development of flexible learning at all levels; (8) Deputy Frank Feighan — the provision of the home help service in counties Roscommon and Leitrim; (9) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — the need for the Minister of Transport to make an urgent statement to the House on whether he has been briefed on any proposed programme of cutbacks to Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus services and jobs and whether his Department or his colleague, the Minister for Finance, has suggested any series of cutbacks for public transport companies and operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter; (10) Deputy Kieran O' Donnell — to ask the Minister for Health and Children to immediately instruct the HSE to pay the €1.5 million Government funding due to the Brothers of Charity, Bawnmore, Limerick who provide services to the intellectually disabled; to prevent the loss of services to up to 100 intellectually disabled persons due to the fact that up to 60 carer staff who care for them face losing their jobs due to Government reneging on these funds; (11) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the need to publish the report of Deputy Garda Commissioner Crowley on the shooting dead of Aidan McAnespie at Aughnacloy in February 1998; and (12) Deputies Paul Kehoe and Tom Sheahan — the availability of school inspectors and the need to revise the procedures for teachers seeking their primary teaching diploma.

The matters raised by Deputies Feighan, McGinley, Ó Caoláin, Kehoe and Sheahan, have been selected for discussion.