I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae — the closure of up to 200 Garda stations following this year's budget and associated issues; (2) Deputy Brian Stanley — the plans for the future status of Portlaoise hospital, particularly regarding the intensive care and the accident and emergency unit; what plans there are to proceed with the "Model 2" proposal and the implications this would have for the maternity unit; (3) Deputy Seán Conlan — the HSE proposal to reduce the opening hours of the minor injuries unit at Monaghan General Hospital; (4) Deputy Noel Harrington — the new Hibernia Atlantic Project Express cable being laid between the UK and the USA with the potential to insert a branching unit into the southern part of the country through Cork; (5) Deputy Derek Keating — the urgent and serious situation of public transport in Dublin city and the decision by Dublin Bus to alter many services without notice or consultation which is affecting up to 500,000 users; (6) Deputies Ray Butler and John O'Mahony — the efforts of Revenue to deal with the problem of fuel laundering; (7) Deputy Brendan Smith — the need to retain Dún Uí Néill Barracks, Cavan as a key and pivotal military installation; (8) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — the impact of proposed closure of more than 200 Garda stations on community safety, particularly in smaller rural communities such as County Donegal; (9) Deputy Thomas Pringle — the need to restore the exceptional needs payment for applicants for social housing that are offered accommodation in properties secured under long-term leasing arrangements by local authorities; (11) Deputy Arthur Spring — the exodus of nursing staff from Kerry mental services; (12) Deputy Tom Hayes — the impact the closure of St. Michael's psychiatric unit in Clonmel will have on south Tipperary and the health service as a whole in the constituency; (13) Deputy Denis Naughten — the need for the Government to reopen Roscommon urgent care centre on a 24-7 basis and to revise ambulance by-pass protocols in light of the chronic overcrowding in adjacent accident and emergency departments; (14) Deputy Luke ‘Ming' Flanagan — the overcrowding at the accident and emergency department, University Hospital Galway, on Saturday, 24 September 2011; (15) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the need to prohibit in law of the manufacture and sale of window blinds with looped cords; (16) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh — the decision by the HSE management in Dublin mid-Leinster to impose a 5% cut in funding to drugs projects — section 39 funding — for the final quarter of 2011; (17) Deputy Michael McCarthy — the provision of ambulance cover in west Cork; (18) Deputy Mick Wallace — the declaration by Dublin City Council that 12,500 applicants are ineligible to be housed by the local authority plans to use NAMA-controlled housing units for the benefit of those on the waiting list; and (19) Deputy Billy Kelleher — the industrial action planned at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital Limerick by members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
The matters raised by Deputies John O'Mahony and Ray Butler, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Michael McCarthy and Billy Kelleher have been selected for discussion.