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 Mattie McGrath — the future strategy in respect of the provision of post office services; (2) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae — the cost of school books; (3) Deputy Paschal Donohoe — the plans the Government has to sell Coillte; (4) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — the need for the Minister for Health to intervene to have the extension at Letterkenny Hospital, County Donegal, completed; (5) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the need to take action to get financial institutions to extend credit to viable businesses; (6) Deputy Timmy Dooley — the reconfiguration of vocational education committees with particular reference to Clare VEC; (7) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív — an gá atá ann tuilleadh airgid a cheadú do Scoil Bhaile Nua, Baile Nua Maigh Cuilinn, Contae na Gaillimhe; (8) Deputy Brendan Griffin — the need for further development of community rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury; (9) Deputy Tom Barry — the establishment of an agricultural review board within the National Asset Management Agency; (10) Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy — the need to provide adequate funding for the arts to sustain our existing cultural infrastructure; (11) Deputy Simon Harris — the need to prioritise the establishment of the EU hotline for missing children; (12) Deputy Michael McCarthy — the need to reverse the decision to withdraw school transport for the children who attend Kilmeen national school, Clonakilty, County Cork; (13) Deputy Derek Nolan — the need to address the anomalies in rates legislation in relation to the refund of rates on vacant properties; (14) Deputy John O'Mahony — the need to review the current criteria for participants in community employment schemes and the need to the increase the overall intake; (15) Deputy Brendan Smith — the need to ensure GP services are continued after 10 p.m. daily at the doctor-on-call centre in Cavan town; (16) Deputy Eoghan Murphy — the need to consider the adoption of an entrepreneur visa similar to that in the UK; (17) Deputy Noel Harrington — the position regarding the provision of a relief road for Bantry town, County Cork; and (18) Deputy Luke ‘Ming' Flanagan — the need to maintain adequate services at Roscommon hospital.
The matters raised by Deputies Tom Barry, Derek Nolan, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Brendan Smith have been selected for discussion.