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 Members in each case: (1) Deputy Ulick Burke — the problems experienced by FÁS apprentices who have been made redundant, in finding alternative employment; (2) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell — the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to release the committed funding for the Limerick regeneration project to enable housing, infrastructural and other programmes to commence immediately, to restore public trust in the project; (3) Deputy Frank Feighan — the need to make changes to the qualifying criteria of community employment schemes; (4) Deputy Joe Costello — the need to maintain FÁS facilities at Jervis Street, Dublin; (5) Deputy Seymour Crawford — the need to reinstate home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; (6) Deputy Brian O'Shea — the need to prevent the closure of St. Brigid's ward at St. Patrick's geriatric hospital, Waterford, with the loss of 19 public beds; (7) Deputy John Cregan — the threatened closure of the agriculture college in Pallaskenry, Country Limerick; (8) Deputy Seán Barrett — the need to discuss the proposed serious cuts by Dublin Bus to bus services in Loughlinstown, County Dublin; (9) Deputy Dinny McGinley — the crisis in the fishing industry as a results of operating the EU's "days at sea" rule controlling the catches of the white fish fleet, its urgent serious impact on employment in the north-west and the urgent need to amend the legislation to rescue the sector from terminal decline; (10) Deputy James Breen — the need to sanction an extension in respect of Barefield national school, County Clare; (11) Deputy Ciarán Lynch — to ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to lay before the House details, including financial implications of his plans to enable local authorities to lease estates from developers as outlined by the Minister of State in recent days and to lay out his programme to spend €20 million in leasing currently idle properties from developers; (12) Deputy Noel J. Coonan — to ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when an application for funding for a new fire station facility in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary will be provided, taking into account the extreme deteriorating conditions at the establishment, and health and safety concerns; and (13) Deputy Tom Sheahan — the many serious issues affecting fishermen in west Kerry and leading to the decline of the fishing industry in the area, mackerel quotas and the "days at sea" rule being just two of the many issues.

The matters raised by Deputies Ulick Burke, Frank Feighan, Joe Costello and Seymour Crawford have been selected for discussion.