Michael Kitt (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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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 Mattie McGrath - the future strategy in respect of the provision of post office services; (2) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the cost of school books; (3) Deputy Paschal Donohoe - the plans the Government has to sell Coillte; (4) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - the need for the Minister for Health to intervene to have the extension at Letterkenny Hospital, County Donegal, completed; (5) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the need to take action to get financial institutions to extend credit to viable businesses; (6) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the reconfiguration of vocational education committees with particular reference to Clare VEC; (7) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - an gá atá ann tuilleadh airgid a cheadú do Scoil Bhaile Nua, Baile Nua Maigh Cuilinn, Contae na Gaillimhe; (8) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the need for further development of community rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury; (9) Deputy Tom Barry - the establishment of an agricultural review board within the National Asset Management Agency; (10) Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy - the need to provide adequate funding for the arts to sustain our existing cultural infrastructure; (11) Deputy Simon Harris - the need to prioritise the establishment of the EU hotline for missing children; (12) Deputy Michael McCarthy - the need to reverse the decision to withdraw school transport for the children who attend Kilmeen national school, Clonakilty, County Cork; (13) Deputy Derek Nolan - the need to address the anomalies in rates legislation in relation to the refund of rates on vacant properties; (14) Deputy John O'Mahony - the need to review the current criteria for participants in community employment schemes and the need to the increase the overall intake; (15) Deputy Brendan Smith - the need to ensure GP services are continued after 10 p.m. daily at the doctor-on-call centre in Cavan town; (16) Deputy Eoghan Murphy - the need to consider the adoption of an entrepreneur visa similar to that in the UK; (17) Deputy Noel Harrington - the position regarding the provision of a relief road for Bantry town, County Cork; and (18) Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan - the need to maintain adequate services at Roscommon hospital.

The matters raised by Deputies Tom Barry, Derek Nolan, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Brendan Smith have been selected for discussion.