Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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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 Robert Troy - the reductions in the hours of My Doc services in Mullingar, County Westmeath; (2) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need for legislation to address the problem of the theft of certain expensive metals such as copper; (3) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the way in which public contracts are tendered; (4) Deputy Emmet Stagg - the funding of the Pipers Hill Educational Campus, Naas, County Kildare; (5) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to reverse the reduction in funding from €1,500 to €500 in respect of the training and materials grant for community employment schemes; (6) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the closure of Garda stations and, in particular, the future of Whitehall station, Dublin 9; (7) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need for an urgent reassessment of permitted stocking levels of sheep and cattle in the Maam Turk and Twelve Bens areas of County Galway; (8) Deputy Timmy Dooley - future relations with Britain following the Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron's, decision not to agree to the terms of the compact agreed at the Brussels summit; (9) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the scrapping of the modern European languages initiative in primary schools; (10) Deputies Jonathan O'Brien, Mary Lou McDonald, Billy Kelleher and Charlie McConalogue - the impact of the withdrawal of supports to schools under the delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, scheme; (11) Deputy John O'Mahony - the waiting times for medical card applications; (12) Deputies Joe Costello, Derek Keating, Maureen O'Sullivan and Alex White - the need to ensure adequate funding and staffing levels for the women's open unit at St. Brendan's Hospital, Grangegorman, to allow it to remain in operation over the Christmas period; (13) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the need to restore the modern languages initiative in primary schools; (14) Deputy Eoghan Murphy - the need for the Adoption Authority to commence negotiations with the authorities in Ethiopia in order to allow inter-country adoptions between the two countries; (15) Deputy Mattie McGrath - funding for the independent commercial radio sector and the need to review the distribution of the licence fee for independent broadcasters; (16) Deputy Clare Daly - the payment of pensions to former employees of De Beers - Element Six; (17) Deputy Barry Cowen - the need to clarify the criteria to be used to assess the viability of community employment schemes, and the future of those schemes; and (18) Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett and Joan Collins - the loss of pay for EBS workers.

The matters raised by Deputies John O' Mahony, Joe Costello, Derek Keating, Maureen O'Sullivan and Alex White, Emmet Stagg, and Jonathan O'Brien, Mary Lou McDonald, Billy Kelleher and Charlie McConalogue have been selected for discussion.