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 John O'Mahony — the closure of Harristown House, addiction treatment facility, Castlerea, County Roscommon; (2) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to revisit the fundamentally flawed community child care subvention scheme; (3) Deputy Joe Costello — the plans of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to prevent civil disturbances from occurring at Hallowe'en; (4) Deputy Tom Hayes — that many areas in south Tipperary are nominally upgraded and successfully classified on the map of broadband coverage of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan, having been identified as broadband enabled. However, once people are any distance at all from the exchange — sometimes even half a mile — the strength of the signal is such that they cannot get broadband. Is it the Minister's intention that these people will simply never get it and, if so, what has he planned for them? What are we to tell people in these areas nominally serviced by broadband but with no real option of getting it?; (5) Deputy Seymour Crawford — the urgent need to review the concerns raised by Protestant fee-paying schools in response to the announcements made by Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, following the 2009 budget; (6) Deputy Mary Upton — the closure of 60 beds at Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross, Dublin 6w; (7) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd — the misdiagnosis of X-rays at hospitals in the north east; and (8) Deputy Arthur Morgan — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to explain to the House why women in the north east are being denied treatment for possible breast cancer diagnoses, which arise from GP referrals being placed in a pile on a desk in Beaumont Hospital cancer unit because no system is in place within the unit to arrange appointments for those women who have been referred to the unit.
The matters raised by Deputies Mary Upton, Fergus O'Dowd, John O'Mahony and Joe Costello have been selected for discussion.