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 Michael Healy-Rae - the establishment of Irish Water; (2) Deputy Willie Penrose - the review of the domiciliary care allowance; (3) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the impact of cuts to teachers allowances on new entrants to the teaching profession; (4) Deputies Michelle Mulherin, John O'Mahony, Dara Calleary - the need to ensure an adequate infrastructure of post office services and for Knockmore post office, County Mayo, to remain open; (5) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the need to find an appropriate site for the Dublin City Central Library; (6) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the future of Valentia community hospital; (7) Deputy Mary Lou McDonald - the impact of the decision to cut rent allowances and increase the minimum contribution paid by tenants; (8) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the impact of tweets and text messages from anonymous contributors being read out on live programmes on television and radio; (9) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the threatened closure of St. Anthony's long stay and respite unit in Clonmel, County Tipperary; (10) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - the strategy for addressing the emigration crisis and the devastating impact on so many of our rural communities; (11) Deputy Denis Naughten - the non inclusion of Cloonakilla national school, County Roscommon, in the recently announced multi-annual building programme; (12) Deputy Tom Hayes - the future of public nursing homes in south Tipperary; (13) Deputy Patrick Nulty - the decision to close 21 beds in James Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin; (14) Deputy Jack Wall - the availability of funding in respect of women's refuge centres; (15) Deputy Seamus Healy - the threatened closure of St. Anthony's long stay and respite unit in Clonmel, County Tipperary; (16) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need to ensure the inclusion of a new school building for Clifden community school, Galway, in a five year building programme; (17) Deputy Áine Collins - the need to amend noise pollution to place restrictions on crow bangers; (18) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the ongoing negotiations on the promissory note, the impact on the economy and society arising from the payment of €3.1 billion to IBRC on 31 March 2012 and the need to reduce the burden on the taxpayer; (19) Deputy Peter Mathews - the need for the Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, to raise the need for a write-off of the emergency liquidity assistance provided by the Central Bank of Ireland to IBRC with the ECB; (20) Deputy Sean Fleming - the exclusion of Ballyroan schools amalgamation and Kolbe Special School, County Laois, from the school building programme for 2012 to 2016; (21) Deputy Charles Flanagan - the proposal by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to categorise cheese as a so-called junk food product; (22) Deputy Joan Collins - the need to provide adequate hospital facilities in respect of sick children; (23) Deputy James Bannon - the need to ensure that the scale is balanced in favour of communities, as opposed to developers, under NAMA legislation; (24) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need to intervene with the banks to provide breathing space to the residents of Priory Hall, Dublin; (25) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - waste disposal services in Dublin city; (26) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the non-inclusion of Ballypousta national school, Ardee, County Louth, in the primary school building programme; (27) Deputy Brian Stanley - the use of utility bills to access information for household charges; (28) Deputy Robert Troy - the number of schools listed in the school building programme for 2012 to 2016 which are new and had not been in planning process, and the expected amount to be spent on the school building programme in 2012; (29) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the proposal to transfer 2000 residential units from NAMA to local authorities for leasing; (30) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the proposed closure of the gynaecological theatre at University College Hospital, Galway; (31) Deputy Mick Wallace - the possibility that banks may be granted greater powers to contact customers who are in mortgage difficulty; and (32) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the effects of cuts to capital funding on the Traveller community, especially in the case of the five families in Avila Park, Finglas, Dublin. The matters raised by Deputies Charles Flanagan; Michelle Mulherin, John O'Mahony and Dara Calleary; Jack Wall; and Billy Kelleher have been selected for discussion and will be taken now.