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 Michael Ring — the proposed flood mitigation works in the Roundfort-Hollymount area of County Mayo; (2) Deputy Paul Kehoe — to ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to immediately reverse her decision to withdraw the State contributory pensions from self-employed spouses who were granted entitlement to a State contributory pension under section 110(1) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; (3) Deputy John O'Mahony — the difficulties encountered by farmers on Clare Island and other islands off the Mayo coast in respect of REPS; (4) Deputy Joe McHugh — the need to revise the rules in regard to the areas in which boats of 15 m and smaller can fish; (5) Deputy Pat Rabbitte — the special report of the Ombudsman relating to the lost at sea scheme; (6) Deputy Pádraic McCormack — the HSE proposals for the future of St. Francis nursing home, Newcastle, Galway; (7) Deputy Joe Costello — the leasing of premises by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform at Wolfe Tone Street, Dublin 1; (8) Deputy Ulick Burke — the level of humanitarian support provided to date to property owners and householders three months after the major flooding of 2009; (9) Deputy Frank Feighan — the outstanding report concerning turf-cutting in designated bogs; (10) Deputy John Browne — the need for additional classrooms at Gorey community school, County Wexford; (11) Deputy Bernard Allen — the proposal to transfer the acute orthopaedic unit from St. Mary's Hospital, Gurranabraher, to the South Infirmary with the consequent knock-on effect of downgrading St. Mary's Hospital and the potential loss to that hospital of the long-promised regional rehabilitation unit; (12) Deputy Tom Hayes — the reconfiguration of health services affecting South Tipperary General Hospital; (13) Deputy David Stanton — to ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she is taking to make provision for 1,863 additional second level students in the Midleton area by 2020; (14) Deputy Deirdre Clune — the need to restore the excessive loss of teaching posts to Togher girls' national school and Togher boys' national school in Cork; and (15) Deputy Michael McGrath — the need to tackle the problem of litter and illegal dumping throughout the country.
The matters raised by Deputies Joe Costello, Michael McGrath, Joe McHugh and John Browne have been selected for discussion.