Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

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 Alan Shatter - the need to reunite a mother who has been deported from the State with her son who is in foster care here; (2) Deputy Róisín Shortall - the need to reinstate funding to projects mainstreamed in local drugs task force areas; (3) Deputy Jimmy Deenihan - the delay in providing a mammography machine at Kerry General Hospital; and (4) Deputy Joe Costello - the proposals for the future of Fitzgibbon Street and Mountjoy Garda Stations, Dublin 1.

The matters raised by Deputies Jimmy Deenihan, Alan Shatter and Joe Costello have been selected for discussion.

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