Dáil debates

Thursday, 18 December 2008

2:00 pm

Photo of Charlie O'ConnorCharlie 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 Dan Neville — the level of suicide among the Traveller community; (2) Deputy Pat Breen — patient services at Ennis General Hospital, County Clare; (3) Deputy Mary Upton — that Scoil Mhuire gan Smál, Inchicore, Dublin 8, be included in DEIS band 1 scheme in line with the remaining primary schools serving the same community in the immediate area; (4) Deputy Joe Costello — the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to outline the Garda policing plan for East Wall, Dublin 1; (5) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh — the need to increase funding to the east coast regional drugs task force; (6) Deputy Joanna Tuffy — to ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to give an update on the reported growing stockpiles of recyclable waste for which markets cannot be found, fears that this may mean unemptied household bins in the near future, his response to calls to fund and provide for the burning of the waste in the UK and if he will make a statement on the matter; (7) Deputy Terence Flanagan — the provision of funding to the Dyslexic Association of Ireland; (8) Deputy Joan Burton — to discuss the potential loss in 2009 of 70 or more English language support teachers from primary schools in the Dublin 15 area; and (9) Deputy David Stanton — the provision of second level school places in east Cork.

The matters raised by Deputies Pat Breen, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Terence Flanagan and David Stanton have been selected for discussion.