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 Deasy - the extension of the Wild Atlantic Way to east Cork and Waterford; (2) Deputy Seamus Healy - the need to protect 160 jobs at risk at the Intellicom contact centre at Clonmel, County Tipperary; (3) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to protect 160 jobs at risk at the Intellicom contact centre at Clonmel, County Tipperary; (4) Deputy Brian Stanley - issues arising from recent media reports regarding Portlaoise Regional Hospital and HIQA; (5) Deputy Billy Timmins - the criteria used to allocate funding to local authorities, under the recently announced social housing programme; (6) Deputies Martin Ferris and Jonathan O'Brien - funding of the link school completion programme, Listowel, County Kerry; (7) Deputy Brian Walsh - the need for funding to support vital home care services provided by Galway Hospice; (8) Deputies Michael Lowry and Noel Coonan - employment conditions and threats to jobs at Bord na Móna, specifically at the Littleton factory, Thurles, County Tipperary; (9) Deputy Lucinda Creighton - the need to secure the future of the school completion programme and to oversee its expansion by ring fencing funding in future years; (10) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to address concerns regarding the proposed privatisation of 10% of the Dublin city and national public bus routes; (11) Deputy Dara Calleary - the impact of the selling of loans in Irish small and medium sized enterprises to foreign investors and concerns regarding protection of employment in those SMEs; (12) Deputy Clare Daly - the operation of the symphysiotomy redress scheme, particularly in respect of the refusal of applicants and the awarding of the minimum amount in a majority of cases; (13) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd - Fáilte Ireland's programme, Ireland's Ancient East, and its relevance to County Louth; (14) Deputy Gabrielle McFadden - the need to ensure that persons with neurological conditions will not face the loss of vital services after June 2015, and that charity funding scheme issues are resolved before then; (15) Deputy Mick Wallace - the ongoing crisis in Yemen; (16) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - healthy eating and nutrition in schools in the context of recent findings by the Healthy Food for All charity that one in eight DEIS schools is not offering the school meals programme; (17) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need to encourage and promote private housing construction; and (18) Deputy Áine Collins - road tax rates here and in comparison with Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK in respect of trucks.

The matters raised by Deputies John Deasy, Martin Ferris and Jonathan O'Brien, Dara Calleary and Michael Lowry and Noel Coonan have been selected for discussion.