John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Ceann Comhairle)
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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 Joe Costello - the need for the Minister for Education and Science to acquire a site for the construction of a permanent school for Gaelscoil Bharra, Cabra, Dublin 7; (2) Deputy Jimmy Deenihan - the need for the Health Service Executive to provide a digital mammography machine at Kerry General Hospital to replace the machine that was decommissioned in March 2009; (3) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need for the provision of adequate funding to the Road Safety Authority in view of the number of fatal road accidents recently; (4) Deputy John O'Mahony - the need to sanction a water scheme for 85 houses in County Mayo; (5) Deputy Brendan Howlin - the future of the 24-hour accident and emergency services at Wexford General Hospital; (6) Deputy Pat Breen - the situation following the reconfiguration of acute hospital services in the mid-west region and the need for the Minister for Health and Children to open negotiations with the Health Service Executive with a view to the provision of an air ambulance service in physically remote and peripheral areas to allow people living in these areas to have equal access to 24-hour emergency care; (7) Deputy Charles Flanagan - the decision of the Government to abandon plans for the construction of a proposed new prison at Thornton Hall, north Dublin in spite of the expenditure of in excess of €40 million of taxpayers' money on the project to date against the background of chronic prison overcrowding and unrest; (8) Deputy Dan Neville - the absence of psychiatric expertise in completing the Monageer inquiry; (9) Deputy Jan O'Sullivan - the need for the Minister for Education and Science to acquire a site currently owned by Limerick City Council for a purpose built school for Gaelscoil Seoirse Clancy, Southill, Limerick in view of the totally inadequate existing school premises; (10) Deputies Seán Sherlock and Bernard Allen - the reconfiguration of hospital services in the Cork and Kerry region; (11) Deputy Michael D. Higgins - the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to explain the rationale underpinning cuts to library services, his understanding of the consequences of these actions and whether, in the light of this decision, he will seek to ensure these cuts are reversed and that local authorities will be asked to ring-fence funding for these necessary services; (12) Deputies Mary O'Rourke and Mary Alexandra White - the closure of commercial eel fishing until 2012; and (13) Deputy Lucinda Creighton - the provision of funding for the redevelopment site of the Old Meath Hospital, Dublin.

The matters raised by Deputies Brendan Howlin, Seán Sherlock and Bernard Allen, Lucinda Creighton, and Mary O'Rourke and Mary Alexandra White have been selected for discussion.