Dáil debates

Wednesday, 25 January 2006

3:00 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 Howlin — the denial by the Department of Education and Science of the appeal for school transport services to pupils in Blackwater, County Wexford; (2) Deputy Costello — the need for the Minister to extend the proposed period of time for recipients of one parent family DSFA payments to collect their payments from the post office; (3) Deputy Ring — to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has held meetings with a group (details supplied); (4) Deputy Hayes — to ask the Minister why the waiting period for driving tests in Tipperary town has grown longer since 2005; (5) Deputy Gogarty — if the Minister will investigate procedures and practices in relation to the enforcement of planning conditions for housing at Laraghcon, Lucan, County Dublin; (6) Deputy Connolly — to discuss the funding of the Ballybay Derryvalley wetlands centre project; (7) Deputy Gilmore — the need for a State investigation into the death of a person (details supplied) from variant CJD; (8) Deputy Boyle — to ask the Minister the reason behind and implications of the closure decision of a company (details supplied) in Cork; (9) Deputy O'Sullivan — if the Minister will consider the addition of the Morning Star mother and baby unit of the Regina Coeli hostel on the Schedule of the Residential Institutions Redress Act; (10) Deputy Cowley — to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide the necessary additional funding to increase bed capacity in hospitals; (11) Deputy Morgan — the plans the Minister has to protect migrant workers who are working in the domestic sector; and (12) Deputy Deenihan — to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the threatened work to rule by the INO at Kerry General Hospital.

The matters raised by Deputies Ring, Boyle, Hayes and Howlin have been selected for discussion.