Pat Gallagher (Donegal, 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 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the ongoing provision of breakfast clubs for DEIS schools in Ballymun; (2) Deputy Eugene Murphy - the serious failings in paediatric audiology services in counties Roscommon and Mayo between 2011 and 2015; (3) Deputies Mary Butler, James Browne, Pat Buckley and Mick Wallace - to discuss the recent resignation of consultant psychiatrists from child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, and the impact this will have on already inadequate services; (4) Deputy Thomas Byrne - to discuss the waiting lists for speech and language services and occupational services for children in County Meath; (5) Deputy Carol Nolan - a petition to beseech the Minister for Justice and Equality urgently for leave to remain on humanitarian grounds; (6) Deputy Catherine Murphy - to discuss non-compliance with the planning authorities in cases of unauthorised developments; (7) Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - to explain why Limerick's early intervention service has written to parents in the region to state that only children in extreme urgent cases can be dealt with due to a lack of psychology staff and resources; (8) Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy - to discuss the treatment of subcontractors following the collapse of the Sammon Group; (9) Deputies Seán Crowe, Niall Collins and Richard Boyd Barrett - to discuss the violation of child and human rights taking place at the US-Mexico border due to the US Government's policy of separating children from their parents and detaining them separately; (10) Deputy Declan Breathnach - to discuss the reopening of Faughart national school; (11) Deputy Peter Burke - that Lough Ennell in County Westmeath be included in the wild brown trout fishery designation by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment; (12) Deputy John Curran - the ongoing issue of the illegal use of scrambler bikes and quad bikes; (13) Deputy Jackie Cahill - to explain the long delay in progressing the project to construct a new bridge crossing at Ballina-Killaloe, County Tipperary, considering its importance to the local economy; (14) Deputy Brian Stanley - to discuss with the relevant Minister the level of illegal dumping throughout the State by waste collection companies; (15) Deputy Kathleen Funchion - to discuss the increase in the number of patients on trolleys in acute hospitals; (16) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to reconfigure the delivery of mental health services in County Tipperary; (17) Deputy Michael Harty -the lack of psychiatric services in the west Clare sector; (18) Deputy John Brassil - to ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to sanction a pilot for a new system of drug reimbursement for Ocrevus for primary progressive multiple sclerosis, PPMS, patients, and if he will make a statement on the matter; (19) Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - to discuss the need for multidisciplinary team at Scoil Cara, Cork; (20) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the need for the relevant Minister to include as a matter of urgency additional projects to the Ability programme to address the clear exclusion from the fund of projects based in the north west; (21) Deputy Paul Murphy - the ongoing strike in Lloyds Pharmacy; (22) Deputy Gino Kenny - the Government's proposed cannabis access programme; (23) Deputy Bríd Smith - consultants' pay and the renewal of the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation; and (24) Deputy Robert Troy - to ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to address the inadequacies in the commercial broadband scheme where, following a desktop exercise, sections of roads have been left out and there is no flexibility to finish off a road even though it is logical to do so.

The matters raised by Deputies Breathnach, Corcoran Kennedy, Ellis, and Catherine Murphy have been selected for discussion.

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