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 Liam Twomey - the need to provide a haemodialysis service at Wexford General Hospital; (2) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the need to exempt houses affected by radon gas from the property charge; (3) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the failure of the community nursing home in Inchicore to start operations; (4) Deputy Ciara Conway - the need for permanent buildings to replace the prefabs at Gaelscoil Philib Barún, Tramore, County Waterford; (5) Deputy Olivia Mitchell - the need to ensure priority consideration for women’s reproductive health and family planning in the upcoming EU multi-annual financial framework, the post-millennium development goals discussions and at the Irish Aid conference on hunger, nutrition and climate change; (6) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - the need to have science as a mandatory subject at junior certificate level; (7) Deputy Mary Lou McDonald - the need for the State to provide an apology and other assistance, including a transparent redress scheme, for the surviving women of the Magdalene laundries; (8) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need for the introduction of changes to the social welfare code that will allow for provision of social insurance cover for self-employed persons; (9) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the need to ensure that proposed changes to the means test of student grants does not unfairly target farming families; (10) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the proposed closure of Derrynane House, County Kerry for the 2013 summer season; (11) Deputy John Halligan - the revised schools building projects schedule for 2013; (12) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the recent job losses in HMV and B&Q, the continued impact of upward-only rent clauses in existing leases and the steps taken to defend these jobs and the rights of workers; (13) Deputy Derek Nolan - the implication of the High Court judgment of 23 January 2013 on the subsidiary protection procedures in Irish immigration law; (14) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the implementation of section 63 of the 2010 Road Traffic Act in District Courts; (15) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the funding of hospitals; (16) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need for more direct action to combat obesity; (17) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the alignment of local development companies and local authorities; (18) Deputy Robert Troy - the need to review the decision not to proceed with the abolition of upward-only rents; (19) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the recent revelations of further equine DNA in meat processing plants here and the progress of the investigation; (20) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need to extend the fuel rebate announced in budget 2013 to bus and coach operators; (21) Deputy John Lyons - the need to examine the use of social clauses in public procurement contracts, including quotas to employ jobseekers who are long-term unemployed; (22) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the further information now to hand regarding equine content in ingredients destined for Irish burger processing companies; (23) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the effects of the reduced opening hours of St Michael's House swimming pool, Belcamp, Dublin; (24) Deputy Michael McGrath - the measures being undertaken to ensure that banks take urgent action to deal with the mortgage arrears situation; and (25) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the cuts to the budgets of Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin and the Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin.

The matters raised by Deputies John Lyons, Michael McGrath, Olivia Mitchell and Aengus Ó Snodaigh have been selected for discussion.