Pat Gallagher (Donegal, 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 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Kathleen Funchion - in regard to the department of psychiatry, St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, and the recent report on conditions there; (2) Deputies James Browne and John Lahart - the need for the Minister for Health to address the spike in the number of tragic deaths among young mothers in parts of community healthcare organisation, CHO, 7; (3) Deputy Thomas Pringle - concerns regarding the HSE's new standard operating procedure for the assessment of needs process; (4) Deputy Michael Harty - ongoing threats to rural post offices; (5) Deputy Sean Sherlock - the need for the Minister for Health to clarify that new assessment of needs provisions will not seek to delay service arrangements for children with disabilities; (6) Deputy Tony McLoughlin - to ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an immediate update on the progress of a departmental investigation into fires in Killery, County Sligo; (7) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade about the revelation in correspondence from the State Pathologist in Belfast, Dr. James Lyness, that a section of the rib cage taken from the remains of Aidan McAnespie, and which contained the exit bullet wound, had been disposed of without any reference whatsoever to the McAnespie family and that there is no record retained as to when this occurred, who authorised it or in what way the disposal was carried out; (8) Deputy Eugene Murphy - to ask the HSE to comment on the closure of respite centres due to lack of funding for staff over bank holiday weekends; (9) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - if the Minister will address the concerns of farmers relating to the BVD programme by Animal Health Ireland not being industry led; (10) Deputy Robert Troy - the need for a family resource centre in Longford town; (11) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the need for an urgent debate with the Minister, Deputy Simon Harris, with regard to the life-threatening delays that are happening in the radiology department of University Hospital Kerry, as patients' lives are being put at risk while waiting for scans and reports have been made to management of the hospital but nothing has changed; (12) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss the implementation of a Lariam damage redress scheme for members of the Defence Forces in light of personal injury actions issued against the State last week; (13) Deputy Michael McGrath - to ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the Irish insurance market is open to free and fair competition and that new entrants can compete in the Irish market on a level playing field with existing market participants in terms of access to important market information; (14) Deputy Mattie McGrath - funding for rural community CCTV installation; (15) Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy - to ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he would consider putting an amnesty in place to prevent the forced removal or deportation of children who have largely been raised and educated in our country and consider themselves Irish citizens; (16) Deputies Bríd Smith and Gino Kenny - the HSE suicide report for Dublin south; (17) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the US threat of sanctions against Iran and the Iran nuclear deal; and (18) Deputy Jackie Cahill - if the Minister for Finance will explain why the rules and regulations on State procurement contracts offer no protection to local subcontractors in the event of the main contractor being unable to complete the contract as agreed with the State.

The matters raised by Deputies Troy, Funchion, Harty and Corcoran Kennedy have been selected for discussion and they will be taken now.