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 Leo Varadkar - the plans of the HSE to establish a methadone clinic in the Coolmine Industrial Estate, Dublin 15; (2) Deputy John O'Mahony - the need to address the relations between the Irish Sports Council and the governing bodies of sport; (3) Deputy Bernard Allen - the transfer of orthopaedic services and surgery from St. Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, Gurranabraher, Cork, to the South Infirmary Hospital which effectively rules out the possibility of St. Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital as a location for the proposed regional rehabilitation centre which has been promised for many years by this Government; (4) Deputy Joe McHugh - the nature of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food REPS scheme and specifically delayed REPS payments to farmers whose compliance with certain requirements does not meet the Department's criteria; (5) Deputy Paul Connaughton - the matter of having Teagasc recouped staff in the three private agriculture colleges at Mountbellew, County Galway, Pallaskenry, County Limerick and Gurteen, County Tipperary, to be integrated into Teagasc, which would provide a more equitable staffing arrangement than currently exists between the State-run agriculture colleges and the private colleges, which in turn would help to keep the private colleges open given the record number of students now enrolling at all three; (6) Deputy James Bannon - the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a new community college for Kilbeggan, County Westmeath, or to facilitate the operation of a public private partnership for this project; (7) Deputy Seán Sherlock - the need to ensure the viability of the rowing club facility in line with the management of fish stocks on the Munster Blackwater in Fermoy, County Cork; (8) Deputy Trevor Sargent - the construction of a new school for St. Joseph's Secondary School, Rush, County Dublin; (9) Deputy Joe Costello - the need for the Taoiseach to ensure that Justice for the Forgotten is adequately funded so that it can continue its work on behalf of the victims of the Troubles; (10) Deputy Frank Feighan - turf cutting on bogland; (11) Deputy Dan Neville - an increase in the first three quarters of 2009 of 26% over 2008 on the levels of suicide; (12) Deputy Deirdre Clune - the proposed job losses at Pfizer, Ireland; (13) Deputy Mary Upton - the need to ensure that there is clarification on the provision of home help services for the Ballyfermot-Inchicore area; and (14) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell - to ask the Minister for Enterprise Trade and Innovation what plans he has for funding the recommendations of the mid-west jobs task force.

The matters raised by Deputies Deirdre Clune, Leo Varadkar, Frank Feighan and Trevor Sargent have been selected for discussion.