Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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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 Gerald Nash - the need to re-examine the winding down of the charitable lotteries scheme; (2) Deputy Pat Breen - the recent changes in eligibility criteria for participants in community employment schemes, particularly those in the Kilrush and Ballyea areas of County Clare; (3) Deputy John O'Mahony - the procedures used by North East Leader Company, County Mayo, and the effects they have on funding, following the investigation by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; (4) Deputy Tom Fleming - the effect of changes in the management of commonages across the country; (5) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the negative impact of the proposed alignment of the 52 local development companies with local authorities; (6) Deputy Paschal Donohoe - the steps that can be taken to ensure that banks pass on the additional mortgage interest relief; (7) Deputy Seamus Healy - the need to approve the cancer drug Zytiga for inclusion under the medical card scheme; (8) Deputy Ann Phelan - the establishment of a DNA database in respect of indigenous ash plants; (9) Deputy Simon Harris - the need for the provision of a hospice in County Wicklow; (10) Deputy Robert Troy - the Supreme Court's finding on the recent referendum on the rights of children; (11) Deputy James Bannon - the potential national fallout of the loss of approximately 100 jobs at Ericsson, Athlone, County Westmeath; (12) Deputy Regina Doherty - the need to relax the rule whereby businesses that let premises are liable for the rates arrears of the previous tenants; (13) Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor - the need for greater awareness and action to protect victims of violence in the home; (14) Deputy Finian McGrath - the need for a commission of investigation into the murder, in 1985, of Father Niall Molloy; (15) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the situation regarding the referendum on children's rights and the information distributed by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to the general public; (16) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the failure to open the new purpose-built, 70-bed public nursing home in Inchicore, Dublin, and the Minister for Health's plans with regard to same; (17) Deputies Patrick Nulty, Mick Wallace, Clare Daly, Joan Collins, Richard Boyd Barrett, Joe Higgins and Catherine Murphy - the need to legislate for the X case following the death at University College Hospital, Galway, of Ms. Savita Halappanavar; (18) Deputy Derek Keating - the need to take action to deal with the increased incidence of tuberculosis in Dublin; (19) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need to discuss the auditor's report on CIE; (20) Deputy Niall Collins - yesterday's incident in Dalkey, County Dublin, involving a 14-year-old wielding a knife; (21) Deputy Liam Twomey - the need to reduce orthopaedic outpatient waiting times for patients in the south east; (22) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - the criteria set down by the Health Service Executive for entry onto the GMS panel, which are contributing to the closure of a health provider in Ballycullen, Dublin 24; (23) Deputy Ciarán Lynch - the need to improve the residential property register by the inclusion of additional relevant, readily available, information; (24) Deputy Kevin Humphreys - the need to co-locate the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, with Saint Vincent's Hospital, on the Elm Park site; (25) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the delay in the payment of compensation to victims of floods in 2009; and (26) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need to address issues with the rent supplement scheme, particularly in view of the report on the matter by Focus Ireland.

The matters raised by Deputies Mary Mitchell O'Connor, Ciarán Lynch, Timmy Dooley, Patrick Nulty, Mick Wallace, Clare Daly, Joan Collins, Richard Boyd Barrett, Joe Higgins and Catherine Murphy have been selected for discussion.