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 Denis Naughten — the need to mainstream the Páisti le Chéile project in County Roscommon; (2) Deputy Margaret Conlon — the removal of the ventilated bed at Monaghan General Hospital; (3) Deputy Jan O'Sullivan — to ensure that commitments to provide extra beds and community teams for child and adolescent psychiatry are fulfilled this year and to urgently address the gap in services for 16 to 18 year olds; (4) Deputy Pat Rabbitte — the provision of speech therapy for a child aged 16 years (details supplied) who cannot access speech therapy services at St. John of God's, Islandbridge, where she attends, and who is not allowed to access community speech therapy services because she attends special needs education; (5) Deputy Seán Sherlock — the proposal to cut down to two, from three, the number of consultants operating in Mallow General Hospital, resulting in a dramatic reduction in surgical services from seven days to five days, with the further increase in the workload of Cork University Hospital, CUH. The need also to debate the fact that this decision was taken without proper consultation with staff at Mallow General Hospital and CUH, the net result being an increase in numbers presenting at CUH, which is ill-equipped to deal with this increased throughput and which will result in the potential to increase the dangers to those served by the catchment area of Mallow General Hospital; (6) Deputy Joe Costello — to explain why no progress has been made on the provision of the national children's hospital; (7) Deputy Seymour Crawford — the urgent need to provide money to build the long overdue extension to St. Mary's national school (details supplied), which was built for 150 pupils and now has to cater for 356 pupils and growing. The ESB, water and sewerage has never been upgraded and is a health and safety hazard; (8) Deputy Michael McGrath — that the new accident and emergency unit at the Mercy University Hospital, Cork, be opened without further delay; (9) Deputy Dan Neville — funding for A Vision for Change; (10) Deputy Kathleen Lynch — to discuss why the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is no longer providing funding for Cork City Council for the replacement of mobile homes at halting sites in its catchment area and to request that the Minister make a statement on the matter; (11) Deputy Shane McEntee — the proposed independent study being commissioned on the Eirgrid power line project; (12) Deputy Ciarán Lynch — to ask the Minister for Transport if he considers that the proposed Cork airport authority will be sustainable if it is forced to start life with an inherited debt of €100 million or, as proposed by the Cassells report, if it is forced to sell off its land assets to reduce the debt; (13) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — to respond to information released under the Freedom of Information Act showing that the HSE has failed to spend €25 million allocated to it in 2006 and 2007 for the provision of mental health services and the need for the Minister to ensure that a plan is put in place for the use of this funding to address acute need in this key area of health care; and (14) Deputy Michael D. Higgins — the need to address the conditions in the accident and emergency unit in University College Hospital, Galway.
The matters raised by Deputies Denis Naughten, Margaret Conlon, Michael D. Higgins and Shane McEntee have been selected for discussion.