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 Nicky McFadden — the provision of funding for RAPID groups in Athlone and Mullingar, County Westmeath; (2) Deputy Bernard J. Durkan — the need to amend legislation in order to provide accommodation for persons becoming homeless by being made redundant; (3) Deputy James Bannon — the need to debate 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; (4) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — the provision of acute psychiatric services in the north Dublin and Fingal area; (5) Deputy Joe Costello — the reason persons in receipt of income less than the supplementary welfare allowance are ineligible to apply for a medical card; (6) Deputy Michelle Mulherin — the need to confirm DEIS status for Inver national school, Barnatra, Ballina, County Mayo; (7) Deputy Kevin Humphreys — the cost to the taxpayer through the four local authorities in Dublin of acquiring the incinerator site at Poolbeg; (8) Deputy Noel Coonan — the need for the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline his policy on the future of court sittings in Roscrea and Borrisokane, to state whether his Department will revisit and reconsider the proposal by the Courts Service to cease sittings at Roscrea and Borrisokane District Courts and merge both areas with the District Court area of Nenagh, taking into consideration the considerable inconvenience and expense this move will incur for the people of the locality, the lack of consultation with communities and shareholders, the displacement of gardaí from both areas to attend the court sittings and to make a statement in this regard; (9) Deputy Mattie McGrath — the extremely serious changes being introduced by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, namely, the motion on planning and development regulations that are literally with the stroke of a pen condemning each and every parcel of land perceived to be wetland over 30 sq. m requiring planning permission and any parcel over 2 ha. requiring an EIS to never again being utilised by rural families for any productive use; (10) Deputy Anthony Lawlor — the need for funding from the environment fund to be ring-fenced for the remediation of the landfill site at Kerdiffstown, Naas, County Kildare; (11) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett — the introduction of a national home retrofit loan scheme; (12) Deputy Gerald Nash — the pardoning of former Defence Forces servicemen who deserted during the Second World War in order to fight fascism; (13) Deputy Ciarán Lynch — the need to amend the Litter Pollution Act 1997 to allow local authorities to take action when waste is not visible; and (14) Deputy Dessie Ellis — in the light of the fact that since the economic collapse there has been a considerable rise in the incidence of suicide across Ireland and specifically in my own area of Dublin North West which has been very hard hit with a number of deaths of young people by suicide and there being no doubt that the desperation of the recession is a major contributory factor, to ask what is being done to tackle this problem and what more can be done.
The matters raised by Deputies Lawlor, Ciarán Lynch, Broughan and Costello have been selected for discussion.