Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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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 Martin Ferris — hospital services in Kerry; (2) Deputy Seymour Crawford — to discuss the serious implications for County Monaghan now and the rest of the country for the future of the proposal contained in the North East Transformation Programme of 25 February (details supplied); (3) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd — to ask the Minister for Health and Children to intervene in the case of a seven year old boy who resides near Drogheda and who has a very serious heart condition, who has undergone open heart surgery twice, who is on beta blockers and will need to have further medical procedures and possibly a heart transplant some time in the future and who has been refused a medical card on appeal by the HSE (details supplied); (4) Deputy Jimmy Deenihan — the need to provide a full-time cardiologist at Kerry General Hospital; (5) Deputy Jack Wall — the delays in the payment of arrears to home helps for travel expenses in the Kildare and west Wicklow area; (6) Deputy Ruairí Quinn — the administrative failure of the Department of Education and Science to provide the Minister with information for a reply to oral parliamentary question No. 98 of 20 February which asked the number of primary schools using prefab class rooms and the reason the information sought by the Deputy is not readily available; (7) Deputy Joe Costello — to explain why blood donor records were being transported in the public arena by a staff member of the New York Blood Centre without security on a New York street; (8) Deputy Joan Burton — the increase in fees charged to swimming groups including disabled swimmers at the National Aquatic Centre; (9) Deputy Shane McEntee — the need to achieve reductions in case waiting times in the courts; (10) Deputy Alan Shatter — the delay within the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform in processing citizenship applications; and (11) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — the need for a comprehensive review of all safety procedures at the Dublin Port tunnel in the light of the decision of the National Roads Authority and Dublin City Council to take legal action against the developers of the port tunnel over alleged serious systems failures and the massive gridlock that occurred in Dublin City after yesterday's shutdown of the port tunnel.

The matters raised by Deputies Deenihan, Wall, McEntee and Shatter have been selected for discussion.