Dáil debates

Thursday, 5 June 2014

1:00 pm

Photo of Seán BarrettSeán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Ceann Comhairle)
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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) Deputies Lucinda Creighton, Colm Keaveney, Clare Daly, Michael P. Kitt and Robert Troy - the need for an independent inquiry into the deaths in mother and baby homes; (2) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need for tree height legislation to be introduced to protect the right to light; (3) Deputy Tony McLoughlin - the need to review procedures for registration on the supplementary voter register and the postal vote register following the 2014 local and European elections; (4) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the position in relation to the Bausch and Lomb factory in Waterford city; (5) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - an tuarascáil a foilsíodh maidir leis an seirbhís PSO go na hOileáin Árann - the report published on the PSO service to the Aran Islands; (6) Deputy Kevin Humphreys - the need to hold a plebiscite for a directly elected mayor for Dublin city; (7) Deputy Brian Stanley - the provision of services for children in County Laois; (8) Deputy Finian McGrath - the anti-social activity in Howth during last weekend, the June bank holiday; (9) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to ensure that there is no repetition of serious incidents of anti-social behaviour at Howth harbour such as that which occurred on Saturday, 31 May last; (10) Deputy Seán Crowe - the reduction in places on the VTOS programme in St. Dominic's, Tallaght, County Dublin; (11) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the refusal by some local authorities of properties proposed for social housing by NAMA on the basis social mix standards; (12) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to discuss urgent exemptions from water charges for the people of Clonmel north County Tipperary who have had to endure years of hard water and boil water notices; (13) Deputy Joe Higgins - the reason workers have been forced to strike at the National Gallery of Ireland on Thursday, 6 June 2014; (14) Deputy Ruth M. Coppinger - the reason workers have been forced to strike at the National Gallery of Ireland on Thursday, 6 June 2014; (15) Deputy Jerry Buttimer - the need to take action to grow passenger numbers and increase route options at Cork Airport; (16) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the urgent need to discuss the expansion of an insolvency payment scheme, to operate in a similar manner to the redundancy payment scheme, to protect employees and guarantee them wages owed to them in light of the recent high profile case of the closure of Paris Bakery and Pastry Limited; (17) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss the review into the operation of the Department of Justice and Equality established by the Minister, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald; (18) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the removal of the MS treatment drug, fampyra, from the long-term illness scheme; and (19) Deputy Dara Calleary - the position in relation to the Bausch and Lomb factory in Waterford city.

The matters raised by the Deputies Lucinda Creighton, Colm Keaveney, Clare Daly, Michael P. Kitt and Robert Troy; Brendan Griffin; and Kevin Humphreys have been selected for discussion.