Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Ceann Comhairle)
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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) Deputies Ann Phelan and Thomas Pringle - the need to make provision for self employed workers who are seeking to claim for social welfare; (2) Deputy Robert Troy - the vacant position of director of the HSE’s national office for suicide prevention; (3) Deputy Derek Keating - the problems in collecting social welfare payments at Lucan village, Dublin; (4) Deputy Martin Heydon - the need to include a new primary school at Crookstown, Ballitore, Athy, County Kildare on the Department of Education's five year building programme; (5) Deputy Jonathan O'Brien - the loss of jobs at the Merck Sharpe Dohme pharmacy plant, Innishannon, County Cork; (6) Deputy John O'Mahony - the need to address the waiting times for applications for social protection and in particular carer’s allowance; (7) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the need to open a new purpose built 70 bed public nursing home in Inchicore, Dublin; (8) Deputy Michael Conaghan - the threat posed by escalating gang-related violence; (9) Deputy John Deasy - the loss of 55 jobs at KEL-Tech Engineering, Waterford; (10) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the problems for regular taxi drivers arising from the proposed ending of the transferability of licences from January 2013; (11) Deputy Brendan Smith - the continued imprisonment of Irish trained doctors in Bahrain; (12) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - the possible re-opening of the pilot training college in Waterford by a different company; (13) Deputy Mick Wallace - the raid by the Revenue's customs service on two illegal diesel laundries and the effect this illegal activity has on jobs; (14) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to allow some leniency and discretion when considering applications for the back to education allowance and the progression through education condition; (15) Deputy Joan Collins - the need to discuss the principle of the universal payment of child benefit; (16) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the position of teachers employed in VECs in view of new Teaching Council regulations; (17) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the need to address Ireland's position in the most recent world university rankings; and (18) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need for banks, credit card companies and other credit institutions to provide information to the authorities to combat the illegal importation of prescription drugs.