Anne Ferris (Wicklow, 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) Deputies John O'Mahony, Pat Deering and Paul J. Connaughton - the changes to community employment schemes; (2) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need to declare Ireland a fracking free zone; (3) Deputy Jim Daly - the need to address the accumulation of penalties for people who cannot afford to pay the non-principal private revenue charge by the imposed deadlines; (4) Éamon Ó Cuív - the need to re-assess the permitted stocking levels of sheep and cattle in the Maam Turk and Twelve Bens areas of County Galway; (5) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need to enter into a bilateral agreement with Ethiopia; (6) Deputy Paschal Donohoe - the need to review payment methods for the household services charge; (7) Deputy Derek Keating - the problems of receiving State payments at Lucan Post Office, Dublin; (8) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - accident and emergency provision at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; (9) Deputy Nicky McFadden - the 4th Western Brigade, Athlone, County Westmeath and the new structure of the Defence Forces; (10) Deputy Dara Calleary - the impending closure of inpatient mental health care services at Ballina District Hospital and the proposed closure of Teach Ashling, Castlebar, County Mayo; (11) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the difference in interest payments for variable rate mortgages, particularly those provided by Permanent TSB; (12) Deputy Michelle Mulherin - the need to include Inver national school, County Mayo, in the current review of DEIS schools being undertaken by the Minister for Education and Skills; (13) Deputy Pat Breen - adoption agreements with Vietnam, Ethiopia and Mexico; (14) Deputy Simon Harris - the need to re-examine the system of issuing prescriptions; (15) Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly - the need to discuss the closure of the community employment scheme at the National Disabled Angling Facility, Aughrim, County Wicklow; (16) Deputy Jerry Buttimer - the need to investigate the use of the new VAT rate of 23% on invoices issued by Eircom prior to 1 January 2012; (17) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to solve the problems faced by residents of the Priory Hall complex, Dublin; (18) Deputy Michael McGrath - the possible implications for Ireland from the downgrading in recent days of the EFSF and of nine eurozone countries by the ratings agency Standard & Poors; (19) Deputy Gerald Nash - ambulance response times for accident cases in the Drogheda area, County Louth; (20) Deputy Barry Cowen - the changes in rent supplement announced recently; (21) Deputies Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Robert Dowds - the rights of migrant workers and the way in which the problem of forced labour will be tackled; (22) Deputy Peter Mathews - the need to postpone the redemption of the €1.25 billion Anglo-Irish Bank bond due on 25 January 2012; (23) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the frontline services that are due to be cut following the publication of the service plan of the Health Service Executive; (24) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need to solve the problems faced by residents of the Priory Hall complex, Dublin; (25) Deputy Joan Collins - the changes to waste collection that are taking place in the Dublin City Council area; (26) Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett and Thomas Pringle - the changes to rent allowance rates; and (27) Deputy Seamus Healy - the need to reverse the decision to defer screening for colon cancer. The matters raised by Deputies John O'Mahony, Pat Deering and Paul J. Connaughton, Deputies Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Robert Dowds, Deputy Dara Calleary and Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn have been selected for discussion.