Dáil debates

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

11:40 am

Photo of Joe O'ReillyJoe O'Reilly (Cavan-Monaghan, 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) Deputies Mary Lou McDonald, Michael Conaghan, Dara Calleary, Joe Costello and Eamonn Maloney - the closure of Clerys department store and provisions being made to assist workers; (2) Deputy Brian Stanley - autism services in County Laois; (3) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to provide support and funding to St. Michael’s House for appropriate premises; (4) Deputies Brendan Smith, Gerry Adams and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - British collusion with loyalist paramilitary forces following a recent television documentary; (5) Deputy Lucinda Creighton - the need to examine capital acquisitions tax and the issues surrounding the inheritance tax trap; (6) Deputies Fergus O'Dowd and Éamon Ó Cuív - the detection of BSE on a farm in County Louth; (7) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the recent HIQA inspection reports into services for people with disabilities and the actions that will be taken; (8) Deputy Pat Deering - the need to review the income threshold for the mortgage to rent scheme; (9) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the sale of paintings by the Beit Foundation; (10) Deputy Niall Collins - the need to address the plight of those suffering sexual violence here; (11) Deputy Dan Neville - the admission of children to adult psychiatric beds as reported in the recent Mental Health Commission annual report; (12) Deputy Sandra McLellan - concerns over recent reports of the 2012 internal HSE investigation into the mother and baby home at Bessboro; (13) Deputy Regina Doherty - the progress of pyrite resolution funding and outstanding issues of C1 and C2 houses; (14) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the cut in funding for the Rape Crisis Centre and the impact on services to survivors of sexual violence; (15) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the actions planned to reduce waiting lists at Waterford University Hospital; (16) Deputy Joan Collins - the cut in funding for the Rape Crisis Centre and the impact on services to survivors of sexual violence; (17) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the need for a new building for St Mary's National School, Stranorlar, County Donegal; (18) Deputy Bobby Aylward - the use of banks rather than post offices for social welfare payments; (19) Deputy Clare Daly - the cut in funding for the Rape Crisis Centre and the impact on services to survivors of sexual violence; (20) Deputy Mick Wallace - correspondence from councillors in Dublin local authorities regarding housing standards; (21) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the delay in relocation of Gaelscoil Phadraig, Ballybrack, County Dublin to a new building; and (22) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the plans to address areas and counties with low take up of the under-six free GP care plan.

The matters raised Deputies Fergus O'Dowd and Eamon Ó Cuív; Pat Deering; Brendan Smith, Gerry Adams and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn; and Mary Lou McDonald, Michael Conaghan, Dara Calleary, Joe Costello and Eamonn Maloney have been selected for discussion.

Sitting suspended at 11.50 a.m. and resumed at noon.