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) Deputies Colm Keaveney and Gerald Nash — the non-payment of subsistence and travel allowances by the Health Service Executive to its employees in December and January; (2) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan — insulation in local authority houses and the physical accessibility to local authority houses for people with a disability; (3) Deputy Martin Heydon — the implementation in law of the EU temporary agency workers directive; (4) Deputy Dan Neville — contagion, the issue of copycat suicide; (5) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae — the need to reconsider the recruitment embargo in the public service; (6) Deputy Catherine Murphy — the impact of the removal of the cap on retail space; (7) 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; (8) 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; (9) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton — the need to ensure charities that are VAT exempt are not charged VAT on donations made over the telephone; (10) Deputy Terence Flanagan — the need to ensure funding is not cut for St. Michael's House and those with intellectual disabilities in budget 2012; (11) Deputies Tom Hayes, Seamus Healy and Mattie McGrath — the proposed closure of Kickham Barracks, Clonmel, County Tipperary; (12) Deputy Michael McCarthy — the delays in the processing of medical card applications under the primary care reimbursement scheme; (13) Deputy Niall Collins — the need to fund the RAPID programme in Rathkeale, County Limerick; (14) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the need to amend the eligibility criteria for the JobBridge scheme to cater for lone parents; (15) Deputy Charlie McConalogue — the reports published by the Catholic Church's national board for the safeguarding of children; (16) Deputy Dara Calleary — the potential closure of beds at St. Joseph's District Hospital, Ballina, County Mayo; (17) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh — the need to ensure services continue to be provided at the Base, Ballyfermot, Dublin; (18) Deputy Simon Harris — the need for a guaranteed supply of drinking water to north County Wicklow; (19) Deputy Clare Daly — cuts to public sector pensions; (20) Deputy Joe Costello — the need to combat digital piracy; (21) Deputy Billy Kelleher — price rises by Quinn Healthcare; (22) Deputy Robert Troy — the vacant IDA park in Mullingar, County Westmeath; and (23) Deputy Mick Wallace — the possible payment of jobseeker's benefit to persons who were formerly self-employed.
The matters raised by Deputies Martin Heydon, Colm Keaveney and Gerald Nash, Dara Calleary, and Michael Healy-Rae have been selected for discussion.