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 Michelle Mulherin — the need to tackle a growing waiting list for persons requiring free civil legal services from law centres and to consider charging recipients of criminal legal aid; (2) Deputy Robert Dowds — the need to clarify the criteria used in determining the outcome of applications for Irish citizenship; (3) Deputy Michael Lowry — the laying off of employees on temporary contracts in the Garda vetting unit; (4) Deputy Pearse Doherty — the need to maintain diabetes services for children at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; (5) Deputies Thomas P. Broughan, Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Barry Cowen — the need to clarify the criteria and adequately resource community employment schemes; (6) Deputy Mattie McGrath — funding for the independent commercial radio sector and the need to review the distribution of the licence fee for independent broadcasters; (7) Deputy Dessie Ellis — the closure of Garda stations, in particular, the future of Whitehall station, Dublin 9; (8) Deputy Frank Feighan — the closure of the courthouse in Boyle, County Roscommon; (9) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív — the need for an urgent reassessment of permitted stocking levels of sheep and cattle in the Maam Turk and Twelve Bens areas of County Galway; (10) Deputy Brendan Smith — the implications for management of career guidance following budget 2012; (11) Deputies Brendan Griffin and Thomas Pringle — the need to restore the modern languages initiative in primary schools; (12) Deputy Seamus Healy — the need to commence a State led job creation programme; (13) Deputy Ciarán Lynch — the need to have redundancy payments paid to workers at Vita Cortex, Cork, which is due to close this week; (14) Deputy Eoghan Murphy — the need for the Adoption Authority to commence negotiations with the authorities in Ethiopia to allow inter-country adoptions between Ireland and Ethiopia; (15) Deputy James Bannon — the need to include the rural transport programme in all public transport subventions; (16) Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett and Joe Higgins — the salary loss for the workforce of EBS and the strike threat at the company; and (17) Deputy Clare Daly — the withdrawal by the local authorities in Dublin from the Nevitt landfill project.
The matters raised by Deputies Brendan Griffin and Thomas Pringle; Ciarán Lynch; Michael Lowry; and Thomas P. Broughan, Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Barry Cowen have been selected for discussion.