Dáil debates

Wednesday, 5 October 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) Deputy Noel Harrington - the construction of the Bantry bypass; (2) Deputies Joe Higgins, Joan Collins, Clare Daly and Richard Boyd Barrett - the jailing of Ms Teresa Treacy; (3) Deputy Derek Nolan - the ongoing problems in the emergency department at University College Hospital, Galway; (4) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the future of Kickham Barracks, Clonmel; (5) Deputy Dan Neville - the 4% increase in presentations at hospital due to deliberate self harm; (6) Deputy Derek Keating - the provision of bus services to the people of west and south-west Dublin; (7) Deputy Michael McCarthy - the need for a fairer distribution of resources to west Cork under the local and community development programme; (8) Deputy Brian Stanley - the problem of distressed home loans acquired through local authorities; (9) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the cost of the Anglo Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide promissory note to the taxpayer and its impact on the Government deficit, debt and spending targets; (10) Deputy Joe Costello - the need for the Minister for Defence to take responsibility for the security of the commander-in-chief at Áras an Uachtaráin; (11) Deputy Séamus Healy - the publication of the report of the special delivery unit on the Mid West Regional Hospital, Limerick; (12) Deputy Pat Breen - the need to have a sub office of the vocational education committee in Ennis, County Clare; (13) Deputy Willie O'Dea - the delay in publishing the full report into the Air Corps PC-9 crash in Connemara in 2009; (14) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the possible loss of up to 1,000 jobs at Aviva Insurance; (15) Deputy Brendan Smith - the need to increase the student contribution fee; (16) Deputy Mick Wallace - the use of NAMA-controlled housing units for the benefit of those on housing waiting lists; and (17) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the problem of cigarette smuggling and the related cost to the Exchequer.

The matters raised by Deputies Higgins, Collins, Daly and Boyd Barrett; Griffin; Kelleher; and Nolan have been selected for discussion.