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 Joe Costello - the need for the Minister for Health and Children to resolve the bed crisis at the Mater and St. James's hospitals; (2) Deputy Seán Sherlock - the plans in place under the rural transport programme to provide transport services to those in rural areas who do not have adequate public transport services; (3) Deputy James Bannon - the need for the Minister for Education and Science to consider the establishment of an educational campus for the benefit of the Longford region in the recently closed Connolly Barracks, Longford, County Longford; (4) Deputy David Stanton - the concerns of the Ombudsman on the lack of understanding by many public bodies of what is required to comply with provisions of the Disability Act 2005; (5) Deputies Mary Upton and Joanna Tuffy - to ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reconsider the decision of the HSE to close the newly refurbished Beech ward at Cherry Orchard Hospital, which provides a respite service for elderly people, including Alzheimer's sufferers, during the summer period and also to reconsider plans to move long-stay patients from both the Beech ward and the Laurel ward; (6) Deputy Michael D. Higgins - the detention by the Israeli authorities of two Irish citizens, Mairead Maguire and Derek Graham, who were aboard a vessel on its way to Gaza; the need for the Government to protest to the Israeli authorities at the detention of the two people which took place in international waters; and the need for the Government to secure the release of the property of those detained; (7) Deputy Simon Coveney - to ask the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government to outline in detail where stands the Cork docklands project now, what the Government is planning to do to incentive investment though taxation and gateway funding for this project, where the report completed last summer by the docklands policy committee is and if he will outline its findings, and the plans his Department has to work with the local authority on its ambitious plans for the Cork docklands project; (8) Deputy Beverley Flynn - the allocation of funding to Mayo County Council to assist with the cost of rectifying flood damage; (9) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the urgent need for the Minister for Health and Children to intervene and prevent the cuts to the number of respite beds in Cherry Orchard Hospital and to make a statement on the matter; (10) Deputy John Perry - to ask the Minister for Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to outline the guidelines in place or planned for local government authorities in the matter of the cost benefit analysis procedures and methods to be followed in assessing proposals for their larger capital expenditure projects, and if he will consider extending the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General to include the larger local authority capital expenditure projects; (11) Deputy Deirdre Clune - the need to provide increased resources for drug prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in light of the recent escalation in the use heroin in Cork; and (12) Deputy Ciarán Lynch - to ask the Minister for Finance if it is his intention to provide sufficient finance to continue the provision of area co-ordinators in the family mediation service in the southern and western regions and if he will make a statement on the matter.

The matters raised by Deputies Deirdre Clune, Seán Sherlock, Beverley Flynn and David Stanton have been selected for discussion.