Dáil debates

Thursday, 18 December 2014

7:10 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 Lucinda Creighton - the deteriorating tax environment for productive investment in small and medium-sized enterprises here; (2) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the processing of medical card applications in the primary care reimbursement service; (3) Deputy Joan Collins - reports concerning a clinically brain-dead pregnant woman on life support at Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar, County Westmeath; (4) Deputy David Stanton - the need to secure sites for new primary and post-primary schools in Carrigtwohill, County Cork; (5) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the importance of maintaining the school completion programme in areas of educational disadvantage; (6) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - an gá, i bhfianéise na freagraí a fuair agus nach bhfuair an Roinn Caitheachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe ó na Rannaí Stáit maidir le seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge agus na riachtannais foirne le h-iad a chur ar fáil, agus an gá, de bharr an chéim síos atá tugtha ag an Roinn Caiteachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe don Ghaeilge san iarratas ar eolas maidir le seirbhísi athteangaireachta agus aistriúcháin ata foilsithe aid le gairid, don Aire Caitheachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe teacht isteach sa Dáil agus a dhearcadh agus dearcadh na Roinne i leith na Gaeilge a shoiléiriú; the necessity, in light of the answers which the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform received, and did not receive, from the State Departments regarding services through Irish and the staff requirements in order to provide them, and due to the downgrading of the Irish language by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the application for information regarding interpretation and translation services which it published recently, for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to come into the Dáil to clarify his position, and the position of the Department, in regard to the Irish language; (7) Deputy Clare Daly - the need to reconsider the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act in light of a clinically dead young woman being kept alive because of her pregnancy; (8) Deputy Mick Wallace - the terms of reference for a commission of investigation into the findings of the Guerin report; and (9) Deputy Robert Troy - the need to ensure that people in mortgage arrears are treated fairly by banks.

The matters raised by Deputies David Stanton, Robert Troy, Terence Flanagan and Dessie Ellis have been selected for discussion.