Dáil debates

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

3:35 pm

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 Peadar Tóibín - the need to provide a housing solution for persons forced into homelessness; (2) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to ensure the proper enforcement of section 55 of the Road Traffic Act 2010; (3) Deputy Brian Stanley - the future of Ballacolla post office, County Laois; (4) Deputy Finian McGrath - the need to ban electronic cigarettes on public transport; (5) Deputies John Lyons and Billy Kelleher - the need to complete an independent review of emergency ambulance services in Dublin; (6) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the need to address the concerns regarding SUSI awarding third level grants to students and then withdrawing them; (7) Deputy Jim Daly - the need to ensure that moneys collected under motor tax across County Cork are allocated back to County Cork; (8) Deputy Seamus Healy - the need to alleviate the trolley crisis at South Tipperary General Hospital; (9) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need for hauliers transiting Northern Ireland via the A5 to be exempt the UK road user levy; (10) Deputy Michael Moynihan - the loss of two teachers in the Convent of Mercy primary school, Kanturk, County Cork; (11) Deputy Pat Breen - the difficulties facing Labasheeda National School in County Clare and similar rural primary schools given the current student-teacher ratios for these schools and the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to review this criteria to allow for population fluctuations year on year in the interests of restoring certainty for the schools and communities involved; (12) Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick - the development of the coastal walk way to prevent flooding in Dundalk and Blackrock, County Louth; (13) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - the need to assign a clinical paediatric diabetes nurse to Letterkenny General Hospital; (14) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the need to assign a clinical paediatric diabetes nurse to Letterkenny General Hospital; (15) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the need to assign a clinical paediatric diabetes nurse to Letterkenny General Hospital; (16) Deputy Michael McNamara - the need for measures to eliminate raw sewerage from entering the environment; (17) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the need to assign a clinical paediatric diabetes nurse to Letterkenny General Hospital; (18) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - iarratas Phobal Leitir Móir i gCondae na Gaillimhe an sean bheairic Garda a fháil ar léas fada ó Oifig na nOibreacha Poibli d'úsaid pobail agus a n-iarratas nach ndiolfaí é Dé hAoine seo chugainn le seans a thabhairt a cheist a phlé leis an bpobal; (19) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need to reconsider the auctioning of the former Garda station in Lettermore, Connemara, County Galway to facilitate the use of the premises for community purposes; (20) Deputy Ciara Conway - the need to amend the income figure applied to public servants in the calculation of means for medical card assessment to reflect deductions including PRD, etc.; (21) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the eviction of local authority tenants; (22) Deputy Ciarán Lynch - to ask the Minister for Transport to discuss the introduction of special training for airline staff to enable them to identify victims of trafficking among passengers; (23) Deputy Clare Daly - the crisis in primary school places at junior infant level in Swords for the academic year starting September 2014; (24) Deputy Brendan Smith - the need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to discuss and raise at the United Nations the sentencing to death of 528 Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Egypt; (25) Deputy Mick Wallace - the staffing levels at St. Mary's national school in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, which is due to lose one of its teachers despite having 87 children on roll; (26) Deputy David Stanton - the need to develop specific supports and services for adopted children, and the families of adoptees, who are experiencing post-adoption trauma; and (27) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need to protect tenants' rights in situations of receivership.

The matters raised by Deputies John Lyons and Billy Kelleher, Paul J. Connaughton, Dessie Ellis and Deputy David Stanton have been selected for discussion.