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 Paschal Donohoe - the effects on part-time workers of the inclusion of Sunday as a working day for persons on social protection payments; (2) Deputy Michael Creed - the need to conclude a bilateral adoption agreement with the Russian authorities; (3) Deputy Tony McLoughlin - the need to review the rules of eligibility for the rural school transport scheme and in particular the loss of the service to Ardvarney national school, County Leitrim; (4) Deputy Patrick Nulty - the need to maintain history as a compulsory subject for the junior cycle at second level; (5) Deputy Ciara Conway - the need for a moratorium on the commercial rates revaluation process in Waterford City and County; (6) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need to make provision for services for school leavers with a significant disability; (7) Deputy Finian McGrath - the need for a public information campaign to highlight the lack of heart donations for patients waiting for heart transplants; (8) Deputies Billy Kelleher, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Richard Boyd Barrett - the allocation of funding for autism services; (9) Deputies Brendan Griffin and Arthur Spring - the need to address the concerns regarding the newly centralised ambulance control centre; (10) Deputy Derek Keating - the arrangements in place for supervision of students during school organised Gaeltacht residential trips and classes; (11) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the impact of the HSE recruitment moratorium on community hospitals in County Donegal; (12) Deputy Michael P. Kitt - the theft of six valuable oil paintings by Evie Hone from the Church of St. Peter and Paul at Kiltullagh, Loughrea, County Galway; (13) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - to address the changing trends in drug use, particularly among young people and the need for services to respond appropriately; (14) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - the need for an Oireachtas inquiry into the banks; (15) Deputy Pat Breen - the need to discuss the non-provision of a pension scheme for supervisors on community employment schemes; (16) Deputy Simon Harris - the need to review DART fares to Greystones; (17) Deputy Michael McGrath - the release of certain tape recordings of conversations involving Anglo Irish Bank executives; (18) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the future of the triple lock; (19) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to urgently fill seven medical registrar vacancies in South Tipperary General Hospital; (20) Deputies Martin Ferris and Dessie Ellis - the need for the compulsory use of location beacons on fishing vessels; (21) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need to improve the existing water infrastructure before commencing metering; (22) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need to monitor and review the procedures for the disposal of hazardous waste from both public and private hospital facilities in the State; (23) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to withdraw threatening letters issued for the collection of the household charge to homeowners in incomplete housing developments; and (24) Deputy Clare Daly - the need to discuss the possible delay in the opening of Oberstown facility for young offenders.

The matters raised by Deputies Paschal Donohoe, Martin Ferris and Dessie Ellis, Billy Kelleher, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Richard Boyd Barrett, and Brendan Griffin and Arthur Spring have been selected for discussion.