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 Ruairí Quinn — the recognition of Educate Together as a patron of second level schools; (2) Deputy Ciarán Lynch — to ask the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will lay before the House the details, including financial implications, of his plans to enable local authorities lease estates from developers as outlined by the Minister of State in recent days, and if he will he lay out his programme to spend €20 million in leasing currently idle properties from developers; (3) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the consequences of the planned closure of 56 acute medical beds at Monaghan General Hospital; (4) Deputy Joe Costello — the need for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to ensure the FÁS training, employment and community facilities in Jervis Street, Dublin 1 are not closed down; (5) Deputy Seymour Crawford — the urgent need to have the four hours of home help at least returned to an 83 year old County Monaghan person (details supplied), who had her seven hours of home help first reduced to four hours per week and has now been further reduced to two hours per week since 28 January 2009. This lady has no family or relations to support her and depends on her home help and kind neighbours; (6) Deputy Finian McGrath — the provision of funding in respect of a new centre at St. Joseph's School and Services for the Visually Impaired, Dublin 9; (7) Deputy Alan Shatter — the failure of the Minister for Health and Children to make public the Hynes report; (8) Deputy Brian O'Shea — the need to prevent the closure of St Brigid's ward at St. Patrick's Geriatric Hospital, Waterford, with the loss of 19 public beds; (9) Deputy Lucinda Creighton — the urgent need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to investigate practices of the Dublin City Council planning department given the ongoing confusion over the Jury's Ballsbridge site and the need to clarify the applicability of current zoning within the Dublin City development plan to the site; and (10) Deputy Charles Flanagan — the urgent need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to regularise matters at the organisation, People with Disabilities in Ireland and, in particular, to ensure that staff are paid for work done and services rendered.

The matters raised by Deputies Ó Caoláin, Shatter, Quinn and Finian McGrath have been selected for discussion.