I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Martin Ferris — the rural transport service in Kerry; (2) Deputy Eamon Scanlon — the level of medical cover at St. John's Hospital, Sligo; (3) Deputy Paul Connaughton — the proposed cessation of turf cutting on raised bogs; (4) Deputy James Reilly — the need for remedial safety works to be undertaken at Ward Cross, County Dublin; (5) Deputy Ulick Burke — the urgent need for the Minister for Education and Science to provide professional dental support services to a pupil who suffered a serious accident while attending school requiring ongoing highly professional orthodontic treatment, for which no agency has taken responsibility and which has been appealed to his Department on the expectation of recovering the costs involved; (6) Deputy John O'Mahony — the urgent need to address the long waiting times to process job seekers' allowance and job seekers' benefit, which in Ballinrobe is 14 weeks, Claremorris 15 weeks and Swinford nine weeks; (7) Deputy Joe McHugh — the need to deal with agricultural credit; the need for the Government to pressurise banks to provide stocking loans to farmers to deal with the fact that the cattle trade has collapsed this year because farmers with long records of not defaulting on agricultural credit are being refused stocking loans or credit extensions from banks, given that the establishment of the National Assets Management Agency provides the Government with an opportunity to pressurise banks to provide stocking loans to farmers; (8) Deputy Simon Coveney — to ask the Minster with responsibility for community development projects in the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to outline in detail his plans to restructure community development projects across the country and the cost savings he anticipates making from this plan, and to ask the Minister to guarantee that communities currently benefiting from locally run community development programmes will continue to get this service provision; (9) Deputy Tom Hayes — the assistance given to cereal, beef and dairy farmers; (10) Deputy James Bannon — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to outline her position on the issuing of bogus appointments for a consultant who left the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath last March and whether she stands over these actions, particularly if they are on a country-wide basis; (11) Deputy Ciarán Lynch — the need to arrange brain surgery in respect of a child in County Cork; (12) Deputy Dan Neville — the high levels of suicide during times of recession and high unemployment; (13) Deputy Jimmy Deenihan — the future of the family resource centres in the north Kerry area following the recommendation of the McCarthy report to discontinue the Family Support Agency, FSA; (14) Deputy Lucinda Creighton — the urgent need for the Minister for Education and Science to engage with RTE and the management of St. Mary's National School, Donnybrook, to ensure that the provision of a new primary school building is included in the redevelopment of RTE's Montrose campus; and (15) Deputy Michael Creed — the award of a widow's contributory pension to a person in County Kerry.
The matters raised by the following Deputies Eamon Scanlon, Ciarán Lynch, Michael Creed and Tom Hayes have been selected for discussion.