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 Brian Stanley - the future of Ballacolla post office, County Laois; (2) Deputy Jim Daly - the need to restructure and target road tax revenue at repairing the current road network; (3) Deputy Ciara Conway - the need to amend the income figure applied to public servants in the calculation of means for medical card assessment; (4) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to provide a housing solution for persons forced into homelessness; (5) Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Pearse Doherty, Charlie McConalogue and Thomas Pringle - the need to assign a clinical paediatric diabetes nurse to Letterkenny General Hospital; (6) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need for more beds for cystic fibrosis patients to be provided at Beaumont Hospital; (7) Deputy Michael Colreavy - the broadcasting of GAA games on pay-per-view channels; (8) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the problems in the ambulance service; (9) Deputy Regina Doherty - the proposed closure of a day centre in County Meath; (10) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to address the serious shortcomings within the ambulance service; (11) Deputy Sandra McLellan - the impact of broadcasting GAA games as part of a pay-per-view agreement; (12) Deputies Anthony Lawlor and Derek Nolan - the consequences for Palestinian residents of a proposed new settlement in Hebron in the West Bank; (13) Deputy Dara Calleary - the need for houses in County Mayo damaged by pyrite to be included in the national compensation scheme; (14) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the levies payable under provisions of the fair deal nursing home support scheme; (15) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the change in the referral process to the Mater Hospital child and adolescent mental health service for children in the Dublin 1 area; (16) Deputy Mick Wallace - the costs and availability of invasive ventilation for people with motor neuron disease living at home; (17) Deputy Michael Moynihan - the need for the Government to discuss the broadcasting rights of national sports; (18) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the need for the Minister for Health to set out, in the wake of the "Prime Time" investigation into the ambulance service broadcast on RTE last week, how he plans to improve the service, especially in rural areas; (19) Deputy John Browne - the need for the Minister for Health to make a statement about the ambulance service following last week's "Prime Time" broadcast on the matter; (20) Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick - the development of a coastal walkway to prevent flooding in Dundalk and Blackrock, County Louth; (21) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the need for the Minister for Health to establish a clear and detailed framework to improve the ambulance service; (22) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need for the Minister for Health to inform the Dáil as to how he will provide an ambulance service that meets the demands being placed on it; (23) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss the crisis in primary school places at junior infant level in Swords for the academic year starting September 2014; (24) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need to protect tenants' rights in cases of receivership; (25) Deputy Liam Twomey - the proposal for a patient safety authority in the health service; and (26) Deputy Michael McGrath - to ask the Minister for Finance if he has any concerns about the impact on mortgage holders, both tracker and standard variable rate customers, and the economy generally of the possibility that interest rates may begin to climb again in the period ahead and if he has any plans to address the matter.

The matters raised by Deputies Anthony Lawlor and Derek Nolan; Liam Twomey; and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Pearse Doherty, Charlie McConalogue and Thomas Pringle have been selected for discussion.