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 Pat Deering - the ambulance service in Carlow and the fact all ambulances have to go to St. Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny although a GP makes a call that the patient needs to go to Waterford Regional Hospital; (2) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the need for the reinstatement of rent supplement in the Ballymun area as the regeneration project nears its end; (3) Deputies Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Joan Collins, and Michael Conaghan - the need to prevent the closure of crèches at Ballyfermot, Whitehall and Cabra vocational education colleges; (4) Deputy Jim Daly - the need for an extension to Knockskeagh national school, Clonakilty, County Cork; (5) Deputy Timmy Dooley - to ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the security arrangements at Dublin Airport; (6) Deputy Regina Doherty - the current rent limits for the greater Dublin area; (7) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the selection of a site for the proposed regional wastewater plant in north Dublin; (8) Deputy Dara Calleary - the impact on the operation of Ireland West Airport Knock of the recent Government decision on Shannon Airport; (9) Deputy Anne Ferris - the need for a new school building for Coláiste Ráithín, Bray, County Wicklow; (10) Deputy Dan Neville - recognising International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on Thursday, 17 May, the need to combat homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools; (11) Deputy Ciarán Lynch - the progress made in the processing of medical card applications and review of delays; (12) Deputy Tom Hayes - the need to allow for the registration of Irish deaths abroad; (13) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - harmful drinking behaviour and the increased severity in mental health problems; (14) Deputy Eoghan Murphy - to ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the closure of the Ryanair website and online check-in facilities this weekend; (15) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the urgent need for the Minister for Health to explain the regional discrepancies in the provision by the HSE of home care for young children and the Government's proposals to provide adequate home care to all children in need of it; (16) Deputy Simon Harris - the urgent need for a new building for Newpark Comprehensive School, Blackrock, County Dublin; (17) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the postponement of the new school building at Newpark Comprehensive School, Blackrock, County Dublin until 2015; and (18) Deputy Ciara Conway - the need to re-examine the definition of family as set out in the Irish Constitution and to bring it in line with the UN definition of family.

The matters raised by Deputies Tom Hayes, Charlie McConalogue, Ciarán Lynch and Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Joan Collins and Michael Conaghan have been selected for discussion.