Dáil debates

Wednesday, 17 May 2006

3:00 pm

Séamus Pattison (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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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 Andrews — that the Minister will provide adequate funding for a comprehensive early intervention service for psychosis; (2) Deputy Gilmore — the urgent case of a person (details supplied) who has lost her rent allowance following her marriage on 7 April last and who is now facing eviction from her home on Thursday next; (3) Deputy Crawford — that the Minister outline the steps she has taken at national or European level to protect the income of farmers (4) Deputy Connolly — to discuss the temporary use of available bed space at St. Davnet's hospital, Monaghan, to free up bed space in Cavan and Monaghan general hospitals; (5) Deputy Ó Caoláin — the need for the Minister to make herself fully accountable to the Dáil for the crisis in our health services; (6) Deputies Costello, Ó Snodaigh, Cowley and Cuffe — that the Minister take urgent measures to resolve the hunger strike by 41 Afghans in St. Patrick's Cathedral; (7) Deputy Catherine Murphy — that the Minister outline his views on the proposal to change the airspace licence at Weston Aerodrome; (8) Deputy O'Dowd — to ask the Minister to discuss the urgent need for the Government to oppose in every possible way the decision of the British Government to increase the number of nuclear power stations, thus increasing the volume of nuclear waste to be reprocessed at Sellafield, which will increase the risk to the Irish people from potential accidents or acts of terrorism; (9) Deputy Neville — the funding of new and upgrading sewerage schemes in County Limerick; (10) Deputy McGuinness — the urgent need for an independent inquiry into the design and construction of the Piltown-Fiddown bypass; and (11) Deputy Burton — the crisis of school places in St. Ciaran's national school, Hartstown, where a number of children have failed to get school places for junior infants for September 2006.

The matters raised by Deputies Andrews, Crawford and Costello, Ó Snodaigh, Cowley and Cuffe have been selected for discussion.