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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 13 Oct 2004

Vol. 590 No. 2

Adjournment Debate Matters.

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 Crowe — the need for the Minister to report on the conditions under which NTL is withdrawing its services from many areas of the Dublin South West constituency; (2) Deputy Neville — the review of the care and treatment of a person (details supplied) at the Mid Western Regional Hospital; (3) Deputy Costello — the need for the Minister to provide paid legal representation for a family (details supplied) at the Morris tribunal; (4) Deputy Broughan — the urgent need to ensure that An Post pensioners are paid their due pension increase under the national pay agreement; (5) Deputy Sargent — the need for the Government to respond favourably to the application from a school (details supplied) for two prefabricated classrooms to be in place by June 2005 to accommodate pupil and teacher numbers; (6) Deputy McManus — the deferral of cardiac operations at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin and the shortage of intensive care nurses at the hospital; (7) Deputy Walsh — to make an update available on the affordable housing scheme for Clonakilty, County Cork; (8) Deputy Howlin — the policy of the Government and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in deporting families with Irish-born children who have established long term residence and deep ties in Ireland; (9) Deputy Cuffe — the need to discuss the future and possible closure of a college (details supplied) in County Dublin as this college is one of only two such teacher training colleges in Ireland; (10) Deputies Healy and Hayes — the need to address staff concerns over the impending changes at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary and to ask the Minister to approve funding for staff and equipment to enable the completed health care units to open; (11) Deputy Upton — the need for the Minister expand on his comments on "Today with Pat Kenny" on Monday October 11 and if he agrees that the illegal dump at Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 8 needs urgent attention; (12) Deputy Ring — the need to ask the Minister to provide the funding for a project in County Mayo considering that the facility has planning approval; (13) Deputy Gregory — the need to address a serious outbreak of burglaries in the Ballybough area of Dublin 3, the arrest of a suspect who was returned to Mountjoy Prison and then almost immediately released again on temporary release; (14) Deputy Andrews — to ask the Minister if he is aware of the stand-off between residents and builders at a site (details supplied) which has resulted in the suspension of Dún Laoghaire — Rathdown County Council's construction of social housing at the site; (15) Deputy Gogarty — the reason a person (details supplied) was not told by health board officials that there was a sibling (details supplied) in foster care and the reason an investigation into alleged abuse at a residential institution was not proceeded with; and (16) Deputy Crawford — to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to urgently provide additional funds to the North Eastern Health Board to support the elderly and disabled and especially for extra subvention beds and home help and carers.

The matters raised by Deputies Sargent, McManus, Crawford and Walsh have been selected for discussion.

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