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 Leo Varadkar - given the ongoing delays with the renewal of the bilateral agreement on adoptions between Ireland and Vietnam, that the Minister would assure the House that his Department is now satisfied that a new bilateral agreement with Vietnam will be in place before the summer recess; (2) Deputy Tom Sheahan - the removal of a special needs class at St. Oliver's boys national school, Ballycasheen, Killarney, County Kerry; (3) Deputy John Perry - the introduction of new bilingual recordings for voice annunciators in lifts and pre-recorded telephone messages in public buildings, including Leinster House; (4) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the lack of RTE coverage in some areas of south Tipperary and west Waterford; (5) Deputy Michael Ring - the provision of funding in respect of rural evening transport for the seven pilot projects; (6) Deputy Paul Connaughton - the depressed state of the farming sector with particular reference to the below cost of production milk prices and the upcoming proposed savage reduction of the area based payment, single farm payment, REPS 4 payment and the suckler cow welfare scheme; (7) Deputy Seán Barrett - in view of the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 109, to discuss the NCT car test backlog and resultant penalty anomalies; (8) Deputy James Bannon - the need for the Minister for Education and Science to reconsider the decision to suppress the eight mainstream teacher posts in the Convent Primary School, Rochfortbridge, County Westmeath, from September 2009; (9) Deputy Olivia Mitchell - eligibility criteria in respect of the preschool scheme for children with special needs; (10) Deputy Lucinda Creighton - the urgent need for the Office of Public Works to use the Iveagh Gardens to its full capacity by providing facilities for sports such as football within the gardens, to remedy the lack of recreational facilities available to residents of the inner city; (11) Deputy Dan Neville - the report of the committee of inquiry in St. Luke's Hospital, Clonmel; (12) Deputies Seán Sherlock and Brian O'Shea - plans by Bus Éireann to suspend the Waterford to Cork bus route, which caters for people travelling from Dungarvan to Mallow accommodating a number of towns and villages along the way, because the suspension of this service will leave many people without access to vital goods and services as this bus is their means of transport to neighbouring towns; (13) Deputy Seymour Crawford - to ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to immediately take steps to ensure that those added to the electoral register in the run up to the next election, whenever that may be, are full-time residents at the stated address; and whether he would consider the use of PPS numbers along with proof of address to be the minimum requirement; and (14) Deputy Thomas Byrne - the need to ensure that members of the Judiciary are subject to the measures contained in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 while at the same time ensuring that they are completely independent in their functions.

The matters raised by Deputies Thomas Byrne, Olivia Mitchell, Michael Ring and Tom Sheahan have been selected for discussion.