Michael Kitt (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

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 Paschal Donohoe - the need to finalise student grant applications; (2) Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan - the need to address the problems of rogue taxi drivers through regulation; (3) Deputy Derek Keating - the increased incidences of tuberculosis throughout Dublin city and county; (4) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - the need to respond to the increase in homeless numbers from the recent sleeping rough count; (5) Deputy Gerald Nash - the need to fast track carer's allowance payments to returned emigrants who have come back home to care for family members; (6) Deputy Simon Harris - the lack of primary school places available in Greystones and Kilcoole, County Wicklow; (7) Deputy Michael McNamara - the need to give courts discretion not to allow banks who have unreasonably refused offers of restructure to repossess family homes; (8) Deputy Michael P. Kitt - the closure of the residential centre of Toghermore House, Tuam, County Galway; (9) Deputy Jonathan O'Brien - the effects of the increase in the pupil-teacher ration from 17:1 to 19:1; (10) Deputy Noel Harrington - the need to provide adequate broadband speeds in all areas of the country; (11) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the impact of a number of cuts in budget 2013 to the further education and training sector in particular the increase in the pupil teacher ratio for PLC schools; (12) Deputy Joe McHugh - Irish culture and bullying in Irish society; (13) Deputy Billy Timmins - the need to publish an interim report on the inquiry into the death of Savita Halappanavar; (14) Deputy Shane Ross - the proposed closure of Stepaside Garda station, County Dublin; (15) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the implications of the proposal to appoint up to 1,000 nursing and midwifery graduates to a two year rotational graduate scheme on 80% of an entry grade nurse/midwife salary; (16) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need for FÁS to remunerate persons with whom it entered agreements in relation to the Tipperary hostel project; and (17) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need for a grant scheme to assist with septic tank repairs.

The matters raised by Deputies Noel Harrington, Michael P. Kitt, Gerald Nash and Maureen O'Sullivan have been selected for discussion.

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