Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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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 Brendan Smith - the need to retain the status of the Lisdarn nursing unit for the elderly in Cavan town; (2) Deputy Simon Harris - the need for the provision of full respite services at St. Colman's Hospital, Rathdrum, County Wicklow; (3) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to ensure the inclusion, under the health insurance Acts, of services for citizens with an eating disorder in public and private hospitals and clinics; (4) Deputy Nicky McFadden - the development of Coosan national school, County Westmeath; (5) Deputy Mary Lou McDonald - the rejection by the budgetary committee of the European Parliament of the Government's nominee to the European Court of Auditors; (6) Deputy James Bannon - the need to designate Longford as a sub-office of the newly amalgamated Longford-Westmeath VEC; (7) Deputies Tom Hayes, Seamus Healy and Mattie McGrath - the proposed closure of Kickham barracks, Clonmel, County Tipperary; (8) Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor - the need to give a voice in court to children who witness domestic violence when protection, safety and barring order applications are being heard; (9) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the need to protect community hospital and nursing unit bed numbers in budget 2012; (10) Deputy Jonathan O'Brien - the requirement that Irish citizens born in the North of Ireland must send their birth certificates to the British Legalisation Office, Milton Keynes, England, to receive an apostille stamp; (11) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the impact of the removal of the cap on retail space; (12) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the need to ensure that VAT-exempt charities are not charged VAT in respect of donations made over the phone; (13) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the need to reconsider the recruitment embargo in the public service; (14) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - the need to provide additional funding to increase the number of SafeTALK suicide prevention courses; (15) Deputy Eric Byrne - the need to address racially provoked attacks on foreign national members of the community; (16) Deputy Michael McCarthy - the need to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources to west Cork under the local and community development programme; (17) Deputy Niall Collins - the need to fund the RAPID programme in Rathkeale, County Limerick; (18) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the recent resignation of the president of the Olympic Council of Ireland from the taskforce established to help Ireland capitalise on the staging of the 2012 Olympic Games in London; (19) Deputy Clare Daly - the COP 17 climate change talks which began in Durban yesterday; (20) Deputy Joe Costello - the need to combat digital piracy in Ireland; and (21) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the appointment of a new Minister of State with special responsibility for housing.

The matters raised by Deputies Eric Byrne, Anthony Lawlor, Timmy Dooley and Nicky McFadden have been selected for discussion.