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 Michael McNamara - the Clare hurling managers' strategy on young people's welfare, A Progressive Approach; (2) Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor - the proposed enactment of section 30 of the Teaching Council Act on 1 November 2013; (3) Deputy Michelle Mulherin - the need to make provision for training of chefs through the VECs; (4) Deputies Michael P. Kitt, Kevin Humphreys and Dessie Ellis - the steps to be taken to deal with an increase in homelessness in Dublin; (5) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need to re-open the education fund for survivors of the Magdalen laundries; (6) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - to ask the Minister for Finance whether he intends to use his powers under section 14 of the NAMA Act 2009 to direct NAMA to delay the sale of lands at St. Edmundsbury, County Dublin, so as to enable consideration of the State's interest in these lands in light of how they might be used to contribute to the social and economic development of the State as per section 2(b)(vii) of the NAMA Act; (7) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to address the financial problems being experienced by the St. Michael's House Group; (8) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the rising rate of road fatalities in 2013; (9) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss the downgrading of domestic violence services in Wexford; (10) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need to review the decision to relocate community welfare service officers from Connemara to Galway city and Clifden, and the need to ensure access is provided through the medium of Irish and in reasonable proximity to their community; (11) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the need to keep the community welfare officer clinics open in rural areas in County Donegal to allow vulnerable people to continue to access services; (12) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need for the Government to address the crisis in counselling for child sex abuse victims; and (13) Deputy Derek Keating - the value of continuing to preserve the natural amenity that is the Liffey valley.
The matters raised by Deputies Mary Mitchell O'Connor; Michelle Mulherin; Thomas P. Broughan; and Michael P. Kitt, Kevin Humphreys and Dessie Ellis have been selected for discussion.