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 Dara Murphy — the need to amend the planning laws in relation to the planning appeals process; (2) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — the provision of acute psychiatric services in the north Dublin and Fingal area; (3) Deputy Mattie McGrath — sports facilities for the Abbey school in Tipperary town; (4) Deputy Brendan Griffin — the need for a new primary school building at Blennerville, Tralee, County Kerry; (5) Deputy James Bannon — the need to review the decision which has led to the suppression of the posts of resource teacher for Travellers and the rural co-ordinator for disadvantage at St Mary's national school, Edgeworthstown, County Longford; (6) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív — the need to find innovative ways of providing school transport to small rural schools; (7) Deputy John O'Mahony — the plight of patients in County Mayo with type 1 diabetes; (8) Deputy Kevin Humphreys — to raise with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the excessive cost to the taxpayer through the four local authorities in Dublin of acquiring the incinerator site on Poolbeg Peninsula — 13.4 acres — which is less than half the size of the Irish Glass Bottles site — 50 acres — and is estimated to cost €120 million or over twice the current valuation of the latter, and the need to ensure the taxpayer is not paying above market rates; (9) Deputy Eoghan Murphy — the need to consider new initiatives to address the potential emergence of a skills gap in the high technology sector; (10) Deputy Derek Nolan — the need to perform a comprehensive review of the system of direct provision accommodation; (11) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett — a fiscally neutral proposal for a national home retrofit loan scheme that could create thousands of jobs and reduce energy use and CO2 emissions; (12) Deputy Ciarán Lynch — to ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will amend the Litter Pollution Act 1997 which enables local authorities to take action only against properties which accumulate high densities of refuse and other waste materials in public view and prohibits action being taken in circumstances where the material is not visible, and if he will make a statement on the matter; and (13) Deputy David Stanton — to debate with the Minister for Health the need to rescind the proposal by the ambulance service to permanently remove an ambulance from Youghal, County Cork.
The matters raised by Deputies Éamon Ó Cuív, Eoghan Murphy, Derek Nolan and John O'Mahony have been selected for discussion.