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 Healy — the urgent need to commence the Clonmel flood alleviation scheme as announced by Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Parlon, earlier this year; (2) Deputy Gregory — the crisis in the accident and emergency department in the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7; (3) Deputies Pat Breen and James Breen — the need to ask the Minister why a CAT scanner has not been installed at Ennis General Hospital when the funding has been provided for same; (4) Deputy O'Dowd — the need to discuss issues arising with regard to electronic voting and recent public announcements on possible alterations to technology purchased by the State for this purpose; (5) Deputy Costello — the need for the Minister to provide paid legal representation for a family (details supplied) at the Morris tribunal; (6) Deputy Crawford — the need to ask the Minister the steps she is prepared to take to deal with the serious and unacceptable situation with the Cavan-Monaghan hospital group; (7) Deputy Connaughton — the matter of the slow progress of the amalgamation of St. Jarlath's College and St. Patrick's College, Tuam, County Galway, to seek direction where both colleges stand in so far as necessary expensive structural and maintenance matters that need immediate attention and to ascertain when the Minister will give the go ahead to this project; (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 Perry — the need to call on the Minister to clarify the illegal charge of over 8,000 persons over the age of 70 in respect of charges for long-term care in community and-or district hospitals, community nursing units and also those private nursing homes where the State contracts beds for the provision of long-term care; what immediate and decisive action will the Minister take to initiate a thorough inquiry as to how her Department allowed this unacceptable situation to arise and continue for over three years; and if hundreds of millions have to be repaid, will extra resources be made available by Government or will these costs have to be found from within already stretched budgets of health boards and hospitals thereby penalising older persons further; (10) Deputy Eamon Ryan — the need for the Minister to outline what is the maximum level of central Government funding that could be made available for the rebuilding of a swimming pool (details supplied) which closed on 15 July last; (11) Deputy Upton — the need for the Minister to provide a voucher system to allow public clients of the health service obtain speech therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy services; (12) Deputy Burton — the need for the Minister to make a statement on the future of the digital hub and on whether the Government continues to support the project, and whether or not the Government is willing to supply additional capital funding to the project, and to state the total capital committed to, and expended on, the project to date; (13) Deputy Kirk — that the Minister give serious and immediate consideration to the report on the Seamus Ludlow case and that he advise the House on his subsequent intentions on the matter; and (14) Deputy Boyle — the need for the Minister to make a statement regarding the leaking of a decision by the Environment Protection Agency on the granting of a draft waste licence for a toxic waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy, County Cork; the need to account for the undermining of public confidence in how decisions of this type are made and are communicated and to justify the representativeness of the directors of the Environmental Protection Agency given that the most recent appointments as directors include a recent employee of a company that is being given this draft waste licence.
The matters raised by Deputies Kirk, Healy, Howlin and Connaughton have been selected for discussion.