Séamus Kirk (Louth, 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 Foreign Affairs to outline proposals and prospects for the current Middle East peace process; (2) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the proposals the Minister for Health and Children has for increasing the number of GPs practising throughout the country; (3) Deputy Ulick Burke - the urgent need for the Minister for Education and Science to reconsider the effects of the moratorium on middle management in second level schools; (4) Deputy Joan Burton - the implications for service delivery of non-pay budget cuts in 2010 at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15; (5) Deputy Deirdre Clune - the need to restore the excessive loss of teaching posts at Togher girls' national school and Togher boys' national school in Cork; (6) Deputy John O'Mahony - the difficulties encountered by farmers on Clare Island and other islands off the Mayo coast in respect of REPS; (7) Deputy Jimmy Devins - the current status of the task force on obesity and the priorities to deal with the epidemic of obesity; (8) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - to ask the Minister for Transport to make an urgent statement to the House on the ongoing crisis in the taxi industry given the current industrial action and disruption to services in Dublin, Cork, Galway and cities and towns throughout the State, if he will outline what steps he is taking to review regulations on vehicle standards and age and SPSV license costs and to reform the grossly inadequate regulation of the taxi sector, and if he will make a statement on the matter; (9) Deputy James Bannon - the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to reconsider his position in regard to the regulation of field sports including stag hunting; (10) Deputy Joe McHugh - the need for the Government to establish community employment schemes for the assignment of those on the live register to projects that will prepare communities for the impending tourism season, in view of the levels of litter in every community and the obvious benefits such community projects would have for the tourism industry; (11) Deputy Seán Sherlock - the need for the Revenue Commissioners to review late payment charges in regard to VAT and income tax; (12) Deputy Joe Carey - to ask the Minister for Health and Children to sanction the use of the dementia unit at Clarecastle day care centre; (13) Deputy Andrew Doyle - the inclusion of horticultural products in the compensation scheme for persons whose crops were damaged recently by frost; (14) Deputy Simon Coveney - how a 16 year old unaccompanied Chinese minor could go missing from HSE care in Carrigaline, County Cork, in January 2010; (15) Deputy Jan O'Sullivan - the need for the Minister for Health and Children to outline when she first became aware that there were serious problems at Tallaght hospital with regard to the failure to have X-rays reviewed by radiologists, when the HSE was first made aware of the problem, what action she took as a result, what steps are being taken to inform patients whose X-rays were not reviewed, what steps are being taken to speed up the review of outstanding X-rays, and what inquiry will be held to establish the cause of the serious failures at the hospital; (16) Deputy Alan Shatter - the need for the Minister for Health and Children to make urgent contact with the HSE's Dublin south east area concerning the indefensible delay in making available insulin pumps to two young children, in contrast to other HSE areas which make appliances available within two weeks of a child being diagnosed with type one diabetes; (17) Deputy Mary Upton - the need to progress the addition of the chapel at St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8, onto the record of protected structures, (18) Deputy Trevor Sargent - that the Government bring forward the means for farmers in north County Dublin and others in business to ensure customer companies pay for produce and that clear public examples are made of persons who flout the letter and spirit of prompt payment legislation which is forcing hard pressed business people such as horticulture producers to put up their own homes as security in order to obtain working capital from the banking sector; and (19) Deputy Róisín Shortall - the proposed abolition of the supply panel and the negative implications of this for school children in disadvantaged areas especially given that there is no financial rationale for such a decision.

The matters raised by Deputies Timmy Dooley, Jimmy Devins, Simon Coveney and Mary Uptonhave been selected for discussion.