Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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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 need to secure the future of the school completions programmes and oversee its expansion by ring-fencing funding for the years to come; (2) Deputy Colm Keaveney - reports of an increase in cases where electro-convulsive therapy has been used against a patient’s will; (3) Deputy Sean Fleming - concerns regarding the publication of a HIQA report into maternity services at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, County Laois; (4) Deputy Regina Doherty - changes to funding of the Tús scheme; (5) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to ensure twilight premium payments for social care workers in Galway and Roscommon as is the case in other parts of the country; (6) Deputy Pat Breen - the need to support the GAA in seeking UNESCO intangible cultural heritage status for hurling; (7) Deputies Derek Nolan and Seán Kyne - the need to review the number of social inclusion community activation programme lots for County Galway, in light of the decision that Galway be treated as one county; (8) Deputy Robert Troy - the need to address concerns over the proposed full producer responsibility initiative for waste tyres; (9) Deputy Michael Moynihan - the need to address concerns regarding the reduction of Leader funding in County Cork; (10) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the need to provide clarity to those organisations in receipt of bridging funding under the scheme to support national organisations; (11) Deputy Clare Daly - the need to address the inability of homeowners whose dwellings have pyrite to access their LPT exemption due to the infill testing requirement; (12) Deputy Mick Wallace - concerns regarding the complaints of the condition of local authority housing which are before the European Committee of Social Rights; (13) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the need for a new school building for St. Mary's national school, Stranorlar, County Donegal; (14) Deputy Áine Collins - the need for a transition period for working lone parents whose children are over seven years of age, who will no longer qualify for the one-parent family payment; (15) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the lack of availability of inpatient beds for children with mental health difficulties; (16) Deputy Mattie McGrath - concerns regarding expenditure on the Tipperary hostel project; (17) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need to address price rises on New Ireland life assurance policy premiums; and (18) Deputy Niall Collins - the need to address crime against tourists in Dublin city centre.

The matters raised by Deputies Áine Collins, Niall Collins, Nolan and Kyne and Naughten have been selected for discussion.