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 Peadar Tóibín - the need to provide better funding to the ambulance service in the north east;

(2) Deputy Robert Dowds - the need for national or EU recognition for all qualifications related to the motor industry;

(3) Deputies Dara Calleary, Thomas Pringle and Seán Kyne - the proposed withdrawal of community welfare offices in rural areas;

(4) Deputy Michelle Mulherin - the need to increase the financial contribution from the State for the construction and upgrading of group water schemes in rural disadvantaged areas covered by the CLÁR programme;

(5) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to replace child benefit with a school attendance payment;

(6) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the need to address issues and concerns raised by the proposed realignment of local government;

(7) Deputy Kevin Humphreys - the need to make Flexiseq gel, a treatment for osteoarthritis, available to those on the medical card scheme;

(8) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss the delay in the implementation of the pyrite levy legislation;

(9) Deputy Willie O'Dea - the need for the Government to intervene in the industrial dispute at Wallis in Limerick city; (10) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the renewed prospect of industrial action by non-consultant hospital doctors;

(11) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need to reopen the education fund for survivors of the Magdalen laundries;

(12) Deputies Joe Higgins and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the cancellation of penalty points; and (13) Deputy Michael McCarthy - the need to designate Crohn's disease as a long-term illness and relieve the financial burden on patients.

The matters raised by Deputies Joe Higgins and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Dara Calleary, Thomas Pringle and Seán Kyne, Robert Dowds and Michael McCarthy have been selected for discussion.