Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

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 Michael Healy-Rae - the need to alter the time of year when checking of sheep in undertaken by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; (2) Deputy Dan Neville - the role of Irish overseas aid in education; (3) Deputy John O'Mahony - the situation in Syria where members of the Defence Forces are part of the UN observation mission; (4) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to initiate a national road safety campaign; (5) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the need for mobile phone coverage to be maintained at the highest standards in rural areas; (6) Deputy Michael P. Kitt - the need to ring fence funding in respect of dental services for the homeless in Galway; (7) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to issue an instruction to the national ambulance service to amend its directive of last Thursday to voluntary ambulance providers; (8) Deputies Simon Harris and Regina Doherty - the review of the domiciliary care allowance and the need to ensure the inclusion of children with disabilities in this review; (9) Deputy Jim Daly - the depletion in home nursing support hours for children required by the HSE to avail of Agency Nurses on termination of services provided by the Jack and Jill foundation; (10) Deputy Willie Penrose - media mergers which is predicated upon the recommendations of the advisory group on media mergers; (11) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need for CIE and Iarnród Éireann to protect their property rights and encroachment onto their property in order to facilitate the development of disused railway lines; (12) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the need to ensure that reductions in oil prices are passed on at the pumps; (13) Deputy Clare Daly - the need for enhanced advertising standards in light of the controversial Youth Defence Anti-abortion advertising campaign; (14) Deputy Patrick Nulty - the ongoing technical failure at Ulster Bank; (15) Deputy Michael McGrath - the ongoing technical difficulties being experienced by Ulster Bank; (16) Deputy Robert Troy - the need to address the flooding on the River Shannon over the past number of weeks; (17) Deputy Jonathan O'Brien - the use of monies gained from criminal enterprise seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau; (18) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the CSO census 2011 figures which show a 9% increase in numbers of preschool children in rented accommodation; (19) Deputy Dara Calleary - the need to introduce measures to prevent assaults on the streets of Dublin; (20) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need for measures to deal with anti social use of small motorised vehicles such as mini-bikes and quads; (21) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to ensure a universal service obligation is required by mobile phone operators; (22) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the new rent allowance limits, their effectiveness in forcing landlords to reduce rents and the impact on the need for emergency housing; (23) Deputy Gerald Nash - compensation for women excluded from the Neary redress scheme; (24) Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly - the payment of €1.1 billion to bondholders at IBRC over the period 16 to 28 June 2012; (25) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - concerns over safety at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin; (26) Deputy Charles Flanagan - services for autism in the Laois-Offaly region; (27) Deputy Mick Wallace - the membership of the board of An Bord Pleanála; and (28) Deputy Jerry Buttimer - funding arrangements for Marymount Hospice, Cork.

The matters raised by Deputies John O'Mahony, Gerard Nash, Michael P. Kitt and Jonathan O'Brien have been selected for discussion.

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