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 John O'Mahony - the need for extra accommodation at Gort Sceiche national school, Hollymount, County Mayo; (2) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need for the Minister for Health to scrap the West-Northwest maternity service review in light of the resignation of the chairman of the board following a conflict of interest in the appointment of the consultants who drafted the report itself; (3) Deputy Sean Fleming - the reduction in the qualifying age for youngest child for the purposes of one parent family payment; (4) Deputy Joan Collins - to discuss the lockout of workers at the Greyhound bin collection plant in Clondalkin and the non-collection of bins across Dublin city this morning; (5) Deputy Joe McHugh - to raise with the Minister the organisation of PSO competitions for Donegal-Dublin and Kerry-Dublin services in 2015; (6) Deputy Brendan Griffin - to raise with the Minister the organisation of PSO competitions for Donegal-Dublin and Kerry-Dublin services in 2015; (7) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need for Irish Water to ensure that water meters are fully accessible to those with disabilities; (8) Deputy John Halligan - the need to address concerns regarding the continuing hunger strike by Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails; (9) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the current waiting list for orthopaedic surgery for children at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin; (10) Deputies Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Michael Conaghan - the need to address ongoing gangland violence in view of the recent wounding of a child in a gun attack in Ballyfermot; (11) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the urgent need for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to explain why he has notified groups of the intention to withdraw funding from the national collective of community-based women's networks and the need to outline the alternative sources of funding that will now be put in place for the important work they are doing; (12) Deputy Martin Ferris - to discuss the impact of reconfiguration on services at St. Francis special school in Beaufort, County Kerry; (13) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the need to immediately reverse the decision by the Health Service Executive to suspend life-saving gastric bypass operations on dangerously obese patients; (14) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the ongoing difficulties in the accident and emergency department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth; (15) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - Greyhound Recycling's intention to significantly cut the pay of it's staff; (16) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to discuss the pay and conditions of school secretaries; (17) Deputy Eoghan Murphy - the need to move from wood to concrete in the provision of vital utilities infrastructure - for example, broadband and electricity, as a safer and more durable alternative; (18) Deputy Regina Doherty - the continued exclusion of Fampyra from the general medical scheme in view of the reapplication for funding by the company; (19) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need to immediately commence insulin pump treatment for young persons over the age of five with diabetes in the HSE west region; (20) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss the lockout of workers at the Greyhound bin collection in Clondalkin and the non-collection of bins across Dublin city this morning; (21) Deputy Michael McGrath - to ask the Minister for Finance the implications of the EU investigation into the Irish tax affairs of Apple for foreign direct investment in Ireland; (22) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss the ongoing crisis in Iraq; (23) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the need for the Minister for Health to update the Dáil on his plans for discretionary medical cards; (24) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need for the Government to improve the safety of cyclists on our roads; (25) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the cutbacks to the special needs assistant scheme proposed by the Department of Education and Skills in Circular 0030/2014; (26) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need for the Minister for Health to act on the cuts facing Temple Street Children's Hospital; (27) Deputy Barry Cowen - the need for the Minister for Social Protection to discuss the refusal to accept the rent supplement scheme in Ballymun; and (28) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to address the ongoing concerns about circular 0030/2014 on special needs.

The matters raised by Deputies Seamus Kirk, Regina Doherty, Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Michael Conaghan, and John Halligan have been selected for discussion.