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 Mary O'Rourke - the failure of the first crop of miscanthus; (2) Deputies Shane McEntee and Terence Flanagan - the effects of pyrite in homes; (3) Deputy Dan Neville - the need for counselling and psychotherapy to be regulated under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005; (4) Deputy Seymour Crawford - to urge the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to take immediate action to ensure all overdue moneys such as REPS 4 are paid to farmers immediately in their present financial crisis; (5) Deputies John O'Mahony and Beverley Flynn - the proposed reduction of four special needs assistants from a special needs school in County Mayo; (6) Deputy Leo Varadkar - the construction and completion of the N2-N3 link road; (7) Deputy Joe Costello - the need for the Minister for Foreign Affairs to take urgent action to protect the integrity of the Irish passport and the safety of Irish citizens travelling abroad; (8) Deputy John Perry - the effects of the closure of Ballymote courthouse, County Sligo, on Garda personnel in Ballymote and in particular the Garda complement in Ballymote on the day of a court case in Sligo; (9) Deputy Jan O'Sullivan - the rights of former workers at Dell, Limerick, and at ancillary companies; (10) Deputy Ciarán Lynch - to discuss the coming into force of section 132 of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009, what evaluation has been made of the likely effect of this section on new rentals, the consequences of not applying this provision to pre-existing rentals, the consequences, if any, of the upward only provision in regard to NAMA valuations and the need for a national register of commercial rents; (11) Deputy Pat Breen - the impact the closure of local post offices, local Garda stations and local farming offices is having on the delivery of services to people living in rural Ireland and the urgent need for this Government to take action to arrest this decline of rural Ireland; and (12) Deputy Eamon Scanlon - the need for the retention of District Court facilities for Ballymote, County Sligo.

The matters raised by Deputies Dan Neville, Shane McEntee and Terence Flanagan, Mary O'Rourke, John O'Mahony and Beverley Flynn have been selected for discussion.