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 Jim Daly - the need to introduce new schemes in respect of employment assistance; (2) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the need to ensure that children attending school have adequate food; (3) Deputy Paschal Donohoe - the status of negotiations between the OPW and the Irish Insurance Federation regarding the possible insurance cover for homes in flood risk areas; (4) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to address the shortage of social housing provision in the Dublin North Central area of Dublin City Council and the Howth/Malahide area of Fingal County Council; (5) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the positions of 17 teachers who are employed by the International School of Martyrs, Tripoli, Libya and who are owed salary; (6) Deputy Brian Stanley - the provision of funding or the N80, Portlaoise orbital route, County Laois; (7) Deputy Patrick Nulty - the funding for respite care and support for families with children who have intellectual disabilities; (8) Deputy Noel Harrington - the changes in criteria for special needs assistants to children with disabilities in mainstream classes; (9) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to provide additional staffing resources for the acute psychiatric unit at Roscommon County Hospital; (10) Deputy Áine Collins - the progress being made in the current negotiations between SIPTU, acting on behalf of home help carers, and the HSE; (11) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to amend budget changes in PRSI due to the impact they have had on the take up of Tús places; (12) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the provision of ambulance services in the Naas area of County Kildare; (13) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the closure of hospital beds in community hospitals in County Donegal; (14) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - the printing of school books outside of Ireland and the EU; (15) Deputy Olivia Mitchell - the need to exclude pension benefits from the public service pension reduction; (16) Deputy Michael P. Kitt - the reduction in community project funds in County Galway; (17) Deputy Martin Ferris - the need to update regulation of mortgage providers; (18) Deputy Clare Daly - the implementation of the property tax on the registration deadline day; (19) Deputy Brendan Smith - the failure of the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the European Union to extend the arms embargo relating to Syria; (20) Deputy Shane Ross - the cut in the pupil-teacher ratio at Holy Cross national school, Dundrum, Dublin; (21) Deputy Seán Kyne - the allocation of moneys to Comhar na nOileán Teoranta in the recent Leader funding announcement; (22) Deputy Mick Wallace - the prospects of Revenue receiving all local property tax returns by tonight's deadline; (23) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the use of homeless accommodation in Wicklow to house families who are unable to find RAS accommodation; (24) Deputy Sean Fleming - the processing of online applications for the local property tax; (25) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - fatal foetal abnormalities and the protection of life during pregnancy Bill; and (26) Deputy Robert Troy - recent reports of children being mistreated in crèche.

The matters raised by Deputies Olivia Mitchell, Eamonn Maloney, Brian Stanley and Seamus Kirk have been selected for discussion.

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