Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, 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 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Jim Daly - the importance of patent tax relief for the small and medium enterprise sector; (2) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the appalling housing conditions in the Balgaddy estate, Lucan, County Dublin, and the need for a co-ordinated response from South Dublin County Council and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to address the many outstanding structural problems that continue to damage the quality of life for the residents of Meile an Rí, Tor an Rí and Buirg an Rí; (3) Deputy Noel Harrington - the construction of the Bantry town bypass on the N71. The planning and design are complete and the land acquisition process is practically complete, and the scheme just needs to have funding announced. This proposal is absolutely critical for Bantry due to the construction of a new secondary school, due to be opened later this year, allied with the significant congestion. This project has been proposed for Bantry for as long as I was a member of Cork County Council, since 1999, and for a long time before this. I understand it would qualify as a shovel-ready project, having completed the planning process and land acquisition; (4) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - An ga atá ann breis airgid a cheadú le athchóiriu a dhéanamh ar Scoil Bhaile Nua, Maigh Cuilinn, Co. na Gaillimhe le cinntiu go mbeidh saoráidí scoile feiliúnach sa scoil Ghaeltachta seo - the need to allow more money to reform the Scoil Bhaile Nua, Moycullen, County Galway, to ensure adequate school facilities in this Gaeltacht school; (5) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need for the Minister for Health to take steps to release all available trial vaccination records of children immunised in mother and baby homes, and to immediately establish a no fault compensation scheme for those damaged by such vaccinations; (6) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the imminent construction of flood defences on the Clontarf promenade and the potential reopening of the consultation process; (7) Deputy Dan Neville - the increase by 4% to 11,966 presentations to hospital due to deliberate self-harm nationally; (8) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the closure of beds at St. Brigid's District Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, and concerns regarding a serious reduction in staffing levels and threat of closure hanging over St. Clare's Unit in St. Patrick's Hospital, Cashel; (9) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the need for a new school building at Milltown Presentation Secondary School, County Kerry; (10) Deputies Seán Crowe, Billy Kelleher, Billy Timmins and Catherine Byrne - the proposed closure of St Brigid's long-term care unit in Brittas, County Dublin; (11) Deputy Nicky McFadden - the refurbishment of Athlone Castle, County Westmeath; (12) Deputy John O'Mahony - the anomalies in the back to education allowance criteria that hinder applicants from taking up courses that would lead them to employment; (13) Deputy Michael McNamara - the revenue loss to the Exchequer arising from an increase in off-licence sales and decrease in on-premise consumption; (14) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the need to discuss the full cost of the Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide promissory note to the taxpayer and its impact on the Government deficit, debt and spending targets; (15) Deputy Gerry Adams - the need for the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, to support the demand of the Finucane family for a public inquiry into the murder of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane; (16) Deputy Joe Costello - the development of Shannon Airport as a hub for the storage and distribution of emergency humanitarian supplies; (17) Deputy Dara Murphy - the imminent transfer of hundreds of jobs from the north side to the south side of Cork City. The Government has made a commitment to replacing these services. I believe that because the date for this transfer has just been announced, great comfort could be given to the hundreds of employees and their families and the tens of thousands of residents on the north side of Cork City by allowing this extremely urgent topical issue to be debated in the House today. I wish to raise this issue with the Minister for Health: given the commitment we both share to maintain and enhance services at St. Mary's campus in Gurranabraher and noting that orthopaedic services are being transferred imminently to the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, can the Minister please outline specifically what new services are now planned for the St. Mary's campus and when these services will be put in place; (18) Deputy Gerald Nash - the need to discuss the decision by Louth County Council to accept bottom ash at its landfill at White River, County Louth, to be received from Ireland's first municipal waste incinerator, operated by Indaver at Carranstown, County Meath, which will commence operations imminently; (19) Deputy Clare Daly - the protest camp entitled Occupy Dame Street, located outside the Central Bank since last Saturday night, which seeks to emulate the Occupy Wall Street camp in New York, which itself has been replicated in other cities across the US; (20) Deputy Joe Higgins - the protest camp entitled Occupy Dame Street, located outside the Central Bank since last Saturday night, which seeks to emulate the Occupy Wall Street camp in New York, which itself has been replicated in other cities across the US; and (21) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the escalating accident and emergency unit crisis and the need to maintain accident and emergency units across the country.

The matters raised by Deputies Jim Daly, Joe Costello, Nicky McFadden, and Seán Crowe, Billy Kelleher, Billy Timmins and Catherine Byrne have been selected for discussion.