Michael Kitt (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Ann Phelan - engagement by NAMA with local authorities regarding unfinished estates; (2) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to review under the Voluntary Health Insurance Acts the inclusion of services for citizens with an eating disorder in public and private hospitals and clinics; (3) Deputies Tom Hayes and Mattie McGrath - the need to defer the proposed closure of St. Michael's Psychiatric Unit, Clonmel, County Tipperary; (4) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need to consider seeking out a well-known personality to head up a campaign to tackle obesity; (5) Deputy Patrick Nulty - cuts to community based family therapy services in mental health; (6) Deputy Robert Dowds - the high cost of burials in Dublin; (7) Deputy Arthur Spring - the need to address concerns regarding non-compliant contractors carrying out work for local authorities; (8) Deputy Simon Harris - the need to address the problems being encountered by parents of autistic children in relation to domiciliary care allowance; (9) Deputy James Bannon - the need to reconsider section 33 in Chapter 11 of Part 10 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; (10) Deputy Anne Ferris - the possible abolishment of the Irish Film Board; (11) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the future of St Joseph's, Ardee, the Cottage Hospital, Drogheda, and of St Oliver's, Dundalk, County Louth; (12) Deputy Brian Stanley - the need for the Industrial Development Agency to deliver jobs and investment in the midlands; (13) Deputy Sean Fleming - the request for financial information from sponsoring groups of community employment schemes as part of the ongoing review of community employment schemes; (14) Deputy Dara Calleary - the provision of funding to the National Women's Council; (15) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need to publish the plan of the Health Service Executive for dealing with 3,300 retirements from the health service; (16) Deputy Brendan Smith - the number of the 1,600 teachers retiring at the end of February that will be re-hired and the cost involved; (17) Deputy Clare Daly - reports in the Irish Independent about a Polish national living on welfare here; and (18) Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett, Joan Collins and Joe Higgins - the application by Providence Resources plc for a foreshore licence off the coast of Dublin.

The matters raised by Deputies Harris, Spring, Kirk and Tom Hayes and Mattie McGrathhave been selected for discussion.

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