Dáil debates

Thursday, 27 January 2005

4:00 pm

Photo of Rory O'HanlonRory O'Hanlon (Cavan-Monaghan, Ceann Comhairle)
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I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Durkan — if the Minister will take steps to address the issues now likely to affect the postal and packaging service; (2) Deputy Wall — the serious implications for employment and farming in relation to the decision to close the Greencore sugar plant in Carlow; (3) Deputy Ó Caoláin — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to establish a redress board for those women victims of gross malpractice at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; (4) Deputy Upton — that the Minister outline the position on an urgent application for new windows at a school in Dublin 12 (details supplied); (5) Deputy Naughten — that the Minister outline the actions she is taking to avert the closure of the Carlow sugar factory; (6) Deputy Neville — when construction of a school (details supplied) will commence; (7) Deputy Costello — the need for the Minister to ensure that the Cabra aftercare project and its prison links worker is supported by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform; (8) Deputy Ferris — that the Minister demand the release by the British Government of a person (details supplied) imprisoned after failing to appear at the Bloody Sunday tribunal; (9) Deputy Walsh — the position of the affordable housing scheme at Clonakilty, County Cork and the timescale for its completion; (10) Deputy Cowley — if the Minister will address the inequity where it is proposed to withhold €613,000 from the budget of Mayo General Hospital; (11) Deputy Kenny — the proposed plans for the future of the existing Department of Agriculture and Food facilities at Michael Davitt House, Castlebar; (12) Deputy Ó Snodaigh — if the Minister will provide ringfenced supplementary estimates for 2005 and multi-annual funding from 2006 onwards for survivors of violence against women; and (13) Deputy Burton — if the Minister will concede the need for an inquiry into the recent storm damage to the National Aquatic Centre, Abbotstown, Dublin 15.

The matters raised by Deputies Cowley, Burton, Kenny and Walsh have been selected for discussion.