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 use freedom of information requests to ascertain the reasons for a refusal of medical cards following a review; (2) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to provide better funding for the ambulance service in the north east; (3) Deputy Pat Deering - the support available for people with rare illnesses and conditions who must leave the State for testing and-or treatment; (4) Deputy Martin Ferris - school transport in County Kerry; (5) Deputy Michelle Mulherin - the need to increase the financial contribution for the construction and upgrade of group water schemes in rural disadvantaged areas covered by CLÁR; (6) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the need to protect disability services and funding in the upcoming budget; (7) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to replace child benefit with a school attendance payment; (8) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss the delay in implementation of the pyrite levy legislation; (9) 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; (10) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need to urgently open the education fund for survivors of the Magdalen laundries; (11) Deputy Joan Collins - the urgent need for engagement between local development company workers and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to address issues and concerns raised by the proposed alignment of local government; (12) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the steps which will be taken to secure EU funding for the construction of the Narrow Water bridge, County Louth; (13) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss the failure of the Department of Social Protection to pay pensions last week to many people in the Duncormick area, County Wexford; (14) Deputy Robert Troy - the need for the Government to address the crisis in providing counselling and therapy for child sex abuse victims; and (15) Deputy Kevin Humphreys - the need for the Minister for Health to make FLEXISEQ gel, a treatment for osteoarthritis, available to those in the medical card scheme.

The matters raised by Deputies Michelle Mulherin, Seamus Kirk, Gerald Nash and Denis Naughten have been selected for discussion.