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 Aodhán Ó Ríordáin — the initiation of legislation dealing with a proposed levy on online gaming in the context of sports funding; (2) Deputy Brendan Smith — the need to extend the slurry spreading deadline; (3) Deputy Joe O'Reilly — the need to finalise arrangements in relation to the Border uplands project; (4) Deputy Simon Harris — the ongoing commuter issues faced by users of the DART and Iarnród Éireann services; (5) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae — the need to extend the slurry spreading deadline; (6) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív — an gá atá le cead a fháil cuid de na haonaid tithíochta sóisialta ag Áras Rónáin, Cill Rónáin, Árainn a athrú ó thithe sóisialta go aonad cúram príomhúil faoi chúram an HSE agus nach n-iarrfaí aon aisíoc ar an deontas a tugadh don ionad ó tharla go mbeidh sé in úsáid ag an HSE don phobal; (7) Deputy James Bannon — the need to designate Longford as a sub-office of the newly amalgamated Longford-Westmeath VEC; (8) Deputy Ray Butler — the need for local authorities to prepare plans for rural and urban road networks in severe weather conditions; (9) Deputy Denis Naughten — the need to reinstate chemotherapy and warfarin clinics at Portiuncula Hospital, County Galway; (10) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan — the insulation in local authority houses and accessibility to local authority houses for people with a disability; (11) Deputy Noel Harrington — the safety and transport issues involving the pier in the North Harbour, Cape Clear Island, County Cork; (12) Deputy Terence Flanagan — the need to ensure that the remedial works needed at the Priory Hall apartment complex, Dublin, take place straight away; (13) Deputy Patrick Nulty — the closure of beds at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin; (14) Deputy Mary Lou McDonald — the nine revised points of eligibility' for ring-fenced projects agreed by the FÁS led CE drugs rehabilitation working group of the NDSF; (15) Deputy Timmy Dooley — the need to retain a designated adult cystic fibrosis physiotherapist at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick; (16) Deputies Ann Phelan and Robert Dowds — the need to urgently tackle fuel smuggling; (17) Deputy Seán Crowe — the need to give support to persons whose homes and property have been flooded recently; (18) Deputy Brian Walsh — the need to address funding inequalities affecting the services of Galway Hospice; (19) Deputy Clare Daly — the report just published by the Higher Education Authority on the funding of third level education which among other measures advocates the capping of student numbers; (20) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett — the illegal capture and imprisonment by Israel of Irish citizens in international waters; (21) Deputy Gerry Adams — domestic violence, funding for Dundalk Rape Crisis, Dundalk Women's Aid and Drogheda Women's Refuge and the impact of this on services; (22) Deputy Mick Wallace — that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport would intervene to stop the purchase of land for the New Ross bypass given that there is no possibility of the State completing the project owing to lack of funding; (23) Deputy Joe Higgins — the report just published by the Higher Education Authority on the funding of third level education which among other measures advocates the capping of student numbers; (24) Deputy Thomas Pringle — that Dáil Éireann would discuss the future of rural post offices in light of the opportunistic closure by An Post of Laghey Post Office in County Donegal and the impact of the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011.
The matters raised by Deputies Joe O'Reilly, Ann Phelan, Robert Dowds, Mary Lou McDonald and Brian Walsh have been selected for discussion.