John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Ceann Comhairle)
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I wish to advise the House that 15 Deputies have submitted matters under Standing Order 21, which will be listed in the Official Report: (1) Deputy James Bannon - the reason that application forms in respect of funding under the lottery sports grants for 2009 are not yet available; (2) Deputy Thomas Byrne - the need for greatly increased on-the-spot fines and other penalties for illegal dumping; (3) Deputy Tom Hayes - in light of the serious law and order problems nationally, to ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to use this matter for Adjournment to clarify the situation surrounding 236 one-man rural Garda stations nationally and the 11 one-man Garda stations in south County Tipperary specifically, in that, these Garda stations are vital in preventing the drug and crime problems from escalating and rural communities are totally dependent on them; (4) Deputy Frank Feighan - an update on the Croghan school funding project, as €250,000 in funding is required to complete the school for September; (5) Deputies Joe Costello, Fergus O'Dowd and Charles Flanagan - the circumstances surrounding the granting of an international haulage licence to a convicted drug dealer; (6) Deputies Seán Sherlock, Mary O'Rourke and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the suspension of funding to the scheme of community support for older people; (7) Deputy Dinny McGinley - an cinneadh atá déanta ag Largo Foods-Bia Ghaoth Dobhair idir 123 agus 170 oibrí a ligint chun bealaigh agus an geár-ghá atá le malairt fostaíochta a chur ar fáil chomh luath agus is féidir; (8) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the need for the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to reverse his decisions to dissolve the national drugs strategy team and lay off its staff before an effective mechanism is in place to undertake the work and support that it has provided to the 24 drug task forces and over 600 drugs projects and services, and to make a commitment that the sector, which was already heavily hit by funding cuts this year, will not be subjected to further cut backs; (9) Deputy Simon Coveney - to ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources what impact on the roll-out of DTT the announcement by Boxer to withdraw will have, whether he plans to re-evaluate the current process by which a commercial DTT licence will be granted and the expectation that RTE will provide a free-to-air DTT service by year end; (10) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell - to ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to bring the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009 before the Dáil for debate immediately, with full implementation to follow immediately thereafter, and what other measures he proposes to bring forward immediately to combat gangland crime in Limerick, including making membership of a crime gang a criminal offence, and the immediate establishment of a fully resourced CAB office in Limerick city; and (11) Deputy Tom Sheahan - the ongoing provision of funds for An Moncaí Ocrach in Dingle.

The matters submitted by Deputies Costello, O'Dowd, Charles Flanagan, Sherlock, O'Rourke and Ó Caoláin have been selected for discussion.