Brendan Howlin (Wexford, 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 Lucinda Creighton — the use of the Iveagh Gardens for sports facilities; (2) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to instruct immediately the HSE to pay the €1.5 million Government funding due to the Brothers of Charity, Bawnmore, Limerick, which provides services to the intellectually disabled, to prevent the loss of services to up to 100 intellectually disabled persons due to the prospect of up to 60 carer staff who care for them losing their jobs arising from the Government reneging on these funds; (3) Deputy Mary Upton — to ensure that Drimnagh Castle secondary school, Walkinstown, Dublin 12, immediately be given the promised funding for the school's leaving certificate technology programme; (4) Deputy Bernard Durkan — the reinstatement of home support to a person in County Kildare; (5) Deputy James Bannon — the need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to recognise the need to counteract Government neglect of County Longford in the light of increasing live register figures and the loss of economic stability caused by the announcement of the closure of Connolly Barracks; (6) Deputy Joe McHugh — the future of the fishing of the whitefish fleet in Area 6A of Irish waters; (7) Deputy Michael D. Higgins — the award of a stamp 4 endorsement to a person granted residency; (8) Deputy Simon Coveney — to ask the Minister for Transport whether there has been a change in Government policy on setting up independently-run and owned airports at Cork, Shannon and Dublin, and if he will make a statement on the matter; (9) Deputy Joan Burton — the provision of essential imaging equipment and an accident and emergency service in Connolly Memorial Hospital, Blanchardstown; (10) Deputy Charles Flanagan — to raise with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the impact and consequences of the proposed cuts to the budgets of the Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission; (11) Deputy Pat Breen — the position regarding the chronic overcrowding at the accident and emergency department at Ennis General Hospital in recent days, the need for the Minister for Health and Children to outline the position regarding the proposed hospital development programme at the hospital, when this capital development project will proceed and whether funding has been allocated; and (12) Deputy Thomas Byrne — the provision of an extension to O'Carolan College, Nobber, County Meath.

The matters raised by Deputies Durkan, Burton, McHugh and Byrne, have been selected for discussion.