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 Brendan Smith — the need to retain the status of the Lisdarn nursing unit for the elderly in Cavan town; (2) Deputy Simon Harris — the need for the provision of full respite services at St. Colman's Hospital, Rathdrum, County Wicklow; (3) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — the need to ensure the inclusion, under the health insurance Acts, of services for citizens with an eating disorder in public and private hospitals and clinics; (4) Deputy Nicky McFadden — the development of Coosan national school, County Westmeath; (5) Deputy Mary Lou McDonald — the rejection by the budgetary committee of the European Parliament of the Government's nominee to the European Court of Auditors; (6) Deputy James Bannon — the need to designate Longford as a sub-office of the newly amalgamated Longford-Westmeath VEC; (7) Deputies Tom Hayes, Seamus Healy and Mattie McGrath — the proposed closure of Kickham barracks, Clonmel, County Tipperary; (8) Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor — the need to give a voice in court to children who witness domestic violence when protection, safety and barring order applications are being heard; (9) Deputy Charlie McConalogue — the need to protect community hospital and nursing unit bed numbers in budget 2012; (10) Deputy Jonathan O'Brien — the requirement that Irish citizens born in the North of Ireland must send their birth certificates to the British Legalisation Office, Milton Keynes, England, to receive an apostille stamp; (11) Deputy Catherine Murphy — the impact of the removal of the cap on retail space; (12) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton — the need to ensure that VAT-exempt charities are not charged VAT in respect of donations made over the telephone; (13) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae — the need to reconsider the recruitment embargo in the public service; (14) Deputy Anthony Lawlor — the need to provide additional funding to increase the number of SafeTALK suicide prevention courses; (15) Deputy Eric Byrne — the need to address racially provoked attacks on foreign national members of the community; (16) Deputy Michael McCarthy — the need to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources to west Cork under the local and community development programme; (17) Deputy Niall Collins — the need to fund the RAPID programme in Rathkeale, County Limerick; (18) Deputy Timmy Dooley — the recent resignation of the president of the Olympic Council of Ireland from the task force established to help Ireland capitalise on the staging of the 2012 Olympic Games in London; (19) Deputy Clare Daly — the COP 17 climate change talks which began in Durban yesterday; (20) Deputy Joe Costello — the need to combat digital piracy in Ireland; and (21) Deputy Dessie Ellis — the appointment of a new Minister of State with special responsibility for housing.
The matters raised by Deputies Eric Byrne, Anthony Lawlor, Timmy Dooley and Nicky McFadden have been selected for discussion.