Dáil debates

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

3:00 pm

Photo of Michael KittMichael 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 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputies Michael Healy-Rae and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - the possible closure of Garda stations; (2) Deputy Brian Stanley - the plans for the future status of Portlaoise hospital; (3) Deputy Noel Harrington - the need to connect to the new Hibernia express cable being laid from the United Kingdom to the USA; (4) Deputy Brendan Smith - the need to retain Dún Uí Néill Barracks, Cavan; (5) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to reopen the Roscommon urgent care centre; (6) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the need to discuss the Health Service Executive's decision to impose a 5% cut in funding to drugs projects in Dublin mid-Leinster; (7) Deputy James Bannon - the need to designate Longford as the headquarters of the Longford/Westmeath amalgamated vocational education committees; (8) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need to prioritise tackling childhood obesity; (9) Deputy Derek Keating - the need to discuss the salary of the new chief executive officer of Allied Irish Banks; (10) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the future of Kickham Barracks, Clonmel; (11) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need to discuss plans to transfer the role of administering rent supplement; (12) Deputy Derek Nolan - the need to discuss the emergency department of University Hospital, Galway; (13) Deputy Tony McLoughlin - the need to stimulate job creation measures in the Carrick-on-Shannon area in view of the imminent shedding of jobs at Bank of America; (14) Deputy Seán Conlan - the proposed reduction of opening hours of the minor injuries unit at Monaghan General Hospital; (15) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the cost of the Anglo Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide promissory note to the taxpayer; (16) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need to use NAMA-controlled housing units for the benefit of those on local authority housing lists; (17) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the overcrowding problems in hospitals and the planned further downgrading of 24-hour accident and emergency departments; (18) Deputy Charles Flanagan - the need to introduce a range of measures as an alternative to custodial sentences in civil cases; (19) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the need to provide funding to prevent the proposed closure of Teach Téarmainn; and (20) Deputy Joan Collins - the need to guarantee funding in respect of refuges in County Kildare for those in need of protection from domestic violence.

The matters raised by Deputies Charles Flanagan, Harrington, Healy-Rae, Mac Lochlainn and Ellis have been selected for discussion.