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 Joan Collins - the potential closure of the Seven Oaks pre-school facility in lower Ballyfermot, Dublin; (2) Deputy Ann Phelan - the position regarding heel-prick data cards; (3) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need to ensure the inclusion of a new school building for Clifden community school, County Galway in the list of schools in a five-year building programme; (4) Deputy Simon Harris - the need to formalise the referral procedures and after-care services in place for the selective dorsal rhizotomy operation; (5) Deputies Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Seán Crowe, Kieran O'Donnell, Clare Daly, Joe Higgins and Richard Boyd Barrett - the loss of 121 jobs in the 14 GAME stores across the State and the need to ensure that the workforce are fairly treated and that all customers with accrued credit are fully reimbursed; (6) Deputy Derek Keating - the need for a dedicated child-protection service in view of the recently published report of the Ombudsman for Children; (7) Deputy Kevin Humphreys - the proposed incinerator at Poolbeg, Dublin, and regulation of the waste market; (8) Deputy Brendan Smith - the reason that some DEIS band 1 schools, particularly schools (details supplied) in Dublin, will lose teaching posts in September; (9) Deputy Eoghan Murphy - the attempts being made to locate an Irish citizen missing in Rishikesh, India, since February; (10) Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick - sheep worrying caused by dogs on the Cooley Peninsula, County Louth; (11) Deputy Alan Farrell - the need to make provision for Saturday voting for future referenda, general elections, local and European Parliament elections, by-elections and presidential elections; (12) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need for the banks to freeze all mortgages on properties in Priory Hall, Dublin; (13) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the omission of St. Laurence O'Toole's girls national school, Sheriff Street, Dublin 1 from the five-year capital building programme; (14) Deputy James Bannon - the need to review the cut in funding to St. Christopher's Services, Longford; (15) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the proposed changes to the community welfare services in the Darndale Belcamp Village Centre, Dublin 17; (16) Deputy Dominic Hannigan - the need for a review of the rent allowance limits to take place; (17) Deputy Dara Calleary - the witness protection programme following the departure of the Collins family from Limerick; (18) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the changes being implemented to the community alert seniors alert scheme; (19) Deputy Mick Wallace - the provision of guidance counsellors at Gorey community school, County Wexford; (20) Deputy Robert Troy - the plans for the future of Columb Barracks; (21) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the need to discuss overcrowding in accident emergency departments particularly the Mid-West Regional Hospital; and (22) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need to discuss the effects on communities of the cuts to Dublin Bus services especially in the areas of Ballymun and Finglas.
The matters raised by Deputies Dara Calleary, Kevin Humphreys, Peter Fitzpatrick, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Seán Crowe, Kieran O'Donnell, Clare Daly, Joe Higgins and Richard Boyd Barrett have been selected for discussion.