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 Joe Costello - the need to put in place new educational facilities for All Hallows College, Dublin, to ensure its continuation as an educational campus; (2) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the staffing levels in Kerry General Hospital; (3) Deputy Robert Troy - the need for the Health Service Executive to put in place an early access programme for patients with hepatitis C to new direct acting antiviral; (4) Deputies Sean Fleming and Brian Stanley - the future provision of services at the accident and emergency department in Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise; (5) Deputy Frank Feighan - the need to include Cloonakilla national school, Bealnamulla, County Roscommon, in the school building programme; (6) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need for Irish Water to ensure that water meters are fully accessible to those with disabilities; (7) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need to examine the Labour Court recommendation of 2008 in respect of pension payments for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; (8) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the need to allow geographically isolated small schools to appeal the loss of mainstream teaching posts on grounds of geographic isolation and the lack of an amalgamation option; (9) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need for the Minister to address issues regarding his direction to the Commission for Aviation Regulation on 15 September 2014; (10) Deputy Seán Conlan - the need to retain all positions in the public service card section of the Department in Ballybay, County Monaghan; (11) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the Minister's proposals regarding the introduction of State-subsidised rural broadband and the timeline for such proposals to be completed; (12) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the need to review the appeals process on the allocation of teachers to small schools; (13) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to lobby the British Prime Minister to facilitate a referendum in the North of Ireland on full Irish independence; (14) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the need to address concerns that the decline in income and resources at the National Library of Ireland is impacting on the quality and preservation of its collection; (15) Deputy Michael McNamara - the need to address the beef price crisis; (16) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - the need for community rehabilitation services for stroke victims; (17) Deputy Róisín Shortall - the need to address the unacceptable handling of the review of medical cards for those aged over 70; (18) Deputy Seán Crowe - the need to address concerns due to cuts to funding for the school completion programme in officially designated disadvantaged areas; (19) Deputy Derek Nolan - the need for a new emergency department unit at University Hospital Galway; (20) Deputy Clare Daly - the need to discuss the air strikes inside Syria against IS; (21) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need to discuss the air strikes inside Syria against IS; (22) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the need to address the ongoing crisis in the provision of speech therapy services; (23) Deputy Michael McGrath - the implications for Ireland of the OECD report on base erosion and profit shifting and the Minister's policy actions subsequent to this report; (24) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the plans to address increases in inpatient, day case and outpatient waiting lists between January and July of this year; (25) Deputy Jim Daly - the need to double the capacity at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, to facilitate the treatment of up to 120 patients with spinal deformity each year; (26) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the need to discuss the role of Ireland in the devolution of powers to Northern Ireland following the Scottish referendum result; and (27) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - the need to address concerns regarding deduction at source payments of the local property tax by social welfare recipients.

The matters raised by Deputies Michael McGrath, Michael McNamara, Sean Fleming and Brian Stanley, and Frank Feighan have been selected for discussion.