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) Deputies Colm Keaveney and Gerald Nash - the non-payment of subsistence and travel allowances by the Health Service Executive to its employees in December and January; (2) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - insulation in local authority houses and the physical accessibility to local authority houses for people with a disability; (3) Deputy Martin Heydon - the implementation in law of the EU temporary agency workers directive; (4) Deputy Dan Neville - contagion, the issue of copycat suicide; (5) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the need to reconsider the recruitment embargo in the public service; (6) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the impact of the removal of the cap on retail space; (7) 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; (8) 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; (9) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the need to ensure charities that are VAT exempt are not charged VAT on donations made over the telephone; (10) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need to ensure funding is not cut for St. Michael's House and those with intellectual disabilities in budget 2012; (11) Deputies Tom Hayes, Seamus Healy and Mattie McGrath - the proposed closure of Kickham Barracks, Clonmel, County Tipperary; (12) Deputy Michael McCarthy - the delays in the processing of medical card applications under the primary care reimbursement scheme; (13) Deputy Niall Collins - the need to fund the RAPID programme in Rathkeale, County Limerick; (14) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the need to amend the eligibility criteria for the JobBridge scheme to cater for lone parents; (15) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the reports published by the Catholic Church's national board for the safeguarding of children; (16) Deputy Dara Calleary - the potential closure of beds at St. Joseph's District Hospital, Ballina, County Mayo; (17) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the need to ensure services continue to be provided at the Base, Ballyfermot, Dublin; (18) Deputy Simon Harris - the need for a guaranteed supply of drinking water to north County Wicklow; (19) Deputy Clare Daly - cuts to public sector pensions; (20) Deputy Joe Costello - the need to combat digital piracy; (21) Deputy Billy Kelleher - price rises by Quinn Healthcare; (22) Deputy Robert Troy - the vacant IDA park in Mullingar, County Westmeath; and (23) Deputy Mick Wallace - the possible payment of jobseeker's benefit to persons who were formerly self-employed.

The matters raised by Deputies Martin Heydon; Colm Keaveney and Gerald Nash; Dara Calleary; and Michael Healy-Rae have been selected for discussion.