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 James Bannon - the need to designate Longford as a sub-office of the newly amalgamated Longford-Westmeath VEC; (2) Deputy Seán Kenny - the 50th anniversary of the thalidomide babies; (3) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the provision of an extension of the time for spreading slurry from the end of October to the middle of November; (4) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need to intervene to help save 36 jobs in the Grainger Group; (5) Deputy Brendan Griffin - possible changes to the ambulance service in County Kerry; (6) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need to prioritise a national dental campaign that involves the appointment of a chief dental officer; (7) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - an gá atá le cead a fháil cuid de na haonaid tithíochta sóisialta ag Áras Rónáin, Cill Rónáin, Árann a athrú ó thithe soisialta go aonad curam príomhúil faoi chúram an HSE agus nach n-iarrfaí aon aisíoc ar an deontas a tugadh don ionad ó tharla go mbeidh sé in úsáid ag an HSE don phobal; (8) Deputy John O'Mahony - the need to avoid disruption for exam pupils when teachers retire at the end of February 2012; (9) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to reorganise the Valuation Office to ensure that property revaluations are carried out separately from initial valuations; (10) Deputy Dan Neville - the increase in persons presenting to hospitals due to deliberate self harm; (11) Deputy Robert Dowds - the need to tackle diesel fuel smuggling; (12) Deputies Stephen Donnelly and Mick Wallace - the payment of a $1 billion bond by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited, formerly Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited; (13) Deputy Simon Harris - the current problems faced by commuters using DART and mainline rail services; (14) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to prevent the pension levy from reducing the pension of pensioners of Tara Mines; (15) Deputy Noel Harrington - the placing into examinership of the Fastnet Line, the operators of the ferry service between Cork and Swansea; (16) Deputy Gerald Nash - the payment of €200 million to private sector recruitment firms to provide nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers; (17) Deputies Michael McCarthy and Ciarán Lynch - the placing into examinership of the Fastnet Line the operators of the ferry service between Cork and Swansea; (18) Deputy Michael McGrath - the need to explain the €3.6 billion accounting error; (19) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need for a referendum on the EU-IMF programme; (20) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the initiation of legislation dealing with a proposed levy on online gaming in the context of sports funding; (21) Deputy Michael Moynihan - the need to extend the slurry spreading deadline; and, (22) Deputy Clare Daly - the recent report produced by the International Labour Organisation, the World of Work Report 2011, on the impact of austerity on jobs; and (23) Deputy Mary Lou McDonald - the nine revised points of eligibility' for ring-fenced projects agreed by the FÁS Lead CE Drugs Rehabilitation Working Group of the NDSF.

The matters raised by Deputies Kenny, O'Donovan, McGrath, Donnelly and Wallace have been selected for discussion.