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 Deirdre Clune - the need to ensure support for the Cork Marriage Counselling Centre; (2) Deputy Leo Varadkar - the provision of adequate permanent school buildings for Tyrrelstown Educate Together and Mulhuddart national school, Dublin 15; (3) Deputy Lucinda Creighton - the issuing of the report into corporate governance at the Dublin Docklands Development Authority; (4) Deputy Andrew Doyle - the carer's allowance; (5) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the payment of the Christmas bonus to recipients of social welfare payments; (6) Deputy David Stanton - job losses in Youghal, County Cork; (7) Deputy Joe Carey - the need to implement the recommendations of the interim report of the mid-west taskforce on jobs; (8) Deputy Ulick Burke - the continuation of maternity services at Portiuncala Hospital, County Galway; (9) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell - to call on the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment to implement immediately the recommendations of the mid-west taskforce report chaired by Denis Brosnan; (10) Deputy Chris Andrews - the need to give the Poolbeg chimneys, Dublin, protected status; (11) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the provision of water to Burncourt and Fethard, County Tipperary; (12) Deputy Noel J. Coonan - the proposed abolition of Tipperary Institute of Education; (13) Deputy Pat Breen - the provision of Clare mental health services and in particular the future of the Orchard Lodge facility in Kilrush; (14) Deputy Jan O'Sullivan - the need to implement the recommendations of the interim report of the mid-west taskforce on jobs; (15) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the restructuring of Aer Lingus; (16) Deputy Joe Costello - the maintaining of jobs in the aviation engineering sector in north Dublin; (17) Deputy John Perry - to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to respond to the news this morning that GlaxoSmithKline, the world's second largest drug maker, has announced the closure of its Stiefel plant in Sligo with the loss of 250 jobs and to announce immediately the plans and supports to be put in place to assist those losing their jobs and to help create new jobs for county; (18) Deputy Eamon Scanlon - the announcement today that Stiefel Laboratories in Sligo is to close by 2013; (19) Deputy Tom Hayes - in light of a 2005 OPW report showing serious structural problems with the roof of St. Patrick's national school in Fethard, the need for the Minister for Education and Science to update the House on the status of the new school building for that school and for Fethard Convent national school as this project requires this major capital work as a priority; (20) Deputy Mary Upton - the need to ensure that Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin operates to its full capacity; (21) Deputy Máire Hoctor - the killing in Bolivia of Michael Dwyer from County Tipperary.

The matters raised by Deputies Pat Breen, Máire Hoctor, Chris Andrews and Mattie McGrath have been selected for discussion.