Dáil debates

Thursday, 14 February 2013

11:35 am

Photo of Michael KittMichael 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 Arthur Spring - the terms of redundancy offered to the staff of the IBRC; (2) Deputy Tom Hayes - the need to provide additional classrooms at Knockavilla national school, Dundrum, County Tipperary; (3) Deputy Pat Deering - the need to extend the hedge cutting season; (4) Deputies Finian McGrath and Dessie Ellis - the burning of a Traveller’s home in County Donegal; (5) Deputy Michael McNamara - the need for constitutional change on upward only rent reviews; (6) Deputy Joan Collins - the levels of dampness and condensation in local authority and voluntary housing agency housing stock; (7) Deputies Mattie McGrath and Michael Healy-Rae - the need to ensure public access to Coillte forests after the sale of the crop; (8) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need to address the continued geographical inequity of access to Omalizumab, Xolair, medication for asthma sufferers, especially in the HSE South region; (9) Deputy Barry Cowen - the need to boost competition in the electricity market by giving the go-ahead for new power plants such as at Lumcloon in Ferbane, County Offaly; (10) Deputy Alan Farrell - the need for insurance companies to provide home insurance for remediated pyrite properties; (11) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the introduction of measures to ensure the robustness of the system to endorse the licences of motorists who have incurred penalty points for driving offences; (12) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need for the introduction of changes to the social welfare code that will allow for the provision of social insurance cover for self-employed persons; (13) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the shortage of medical intern training places in July 2013; (14) Deputy Mick Wallace - Ireland's role in the practice of extraordinary rendition, as outlined in the report published last week entitled, Globalising Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition; (15) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the lack of availability of electronic ramps in Irish Rail stations; (16) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - Providence Resources' surrender of the foreshore licence for Dublin Bay and the possibility of new environmental regulations.

The matters raised by Deputies Arthur Spring, Finian McGrath and Dessie Ellis, Alan Farrell and Barry Cowen have been selected for discussion.