Michael Kitt (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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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 Michelle Mulherin - the need to tackle a growing waiting list for persons requiring free civil legal services from law centres and to consider charging recipients of criminal legal aid; (2) Deputy Robert Dowds - the need to clarify the criteria used in determining the outcome of applications for Irish citizenship; (3) Deputy Michael Lowry - the laying off of employees on temporary contracts in the Garda vetting unit; (4) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the need to maintain diabetes services for children at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; (5) Deputies Thomas P. Broughan, Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Barry Cowen - the need to clarify the criteria and adequately resource community employment schemes; (6) Deputy Mattie McGrath - funding for the independent commercial radio sector and the need to review the distribution of the licence fee for independent broadcasters; (7) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the closure of Garda stations, in particular, the future of Whitehall station, Dublin 9; (8) Deputy Frank Feighan - the closure of the courthouse in Boyle, County Roscommon; (9) 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; (10) Deputy Brendan Smith - the implications for management of career guidance following budget 2012; (11) Deputies Brendan Griffin and Thomas Pringle - the need to restore the modern languages initiative in primary schools; (12) Deputy Seamus Healy - the need to commence a State led job creation programme; (13) Deputy Ciarán Lynch - the need to have redundancy payments paid to workers at Vita Cortex, Cork, which is due to close this week; (14) Deputy Eoghan Murphy - the need for the Adoption Authority to commence negotiations with the authorities in Ethiopia to allow inter-country adoptions between Ireland and Ethiopia; (15) Deputy James Bannon - the need to include the rural transport programme in all public transport subventions; (16) Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett and Joe Higgins - the salary loss for the workforce of EBS and the strike threat at the company; and (17) Deputy Clare Daly - the withdrawal by the local authorities in Dublin from the Nevitt landfill project.

The matters raised by Deputies Griffin and Pringle; Ciarán Lynch; Lowry; and Broughan, Ó Snodaigh and Cowen have been selected for discussion.