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 Ann Phelan and Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the action being taken to resolve the ongoing problems in Syria; (2) Deputy Dan Neville - the role of Irish overseas aid in education; (3) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need for CIE and Iarnród Éireann to protect their property rights and encroachment onto their property in order to facilitate the development of disused railway lines; (4) Deputy Paschal Donohoe - the provision of funding in respect of the construction phase of the Dominick Street regeneration project, Dublin; (5) Deputy James Bannon - the future of the Western Brigade of the Defence Forces and of Custume Barracks, Athlone, County Westmeath; (6) Deputy Patrick Nulty - the discovery of pyrite in three Dublin national schools; (7) Deputy Paudie Coffey - following the NUI Maynooth report to the ESRI on the national spatial strategy the need to address the lack of jobs created and foreign investment attracted to the cities of Limerick and Waterford; (8) Deputy Alan Farrell - applications from the live register for positions in polling stations and count centres; (9) Deputy Catherine Byrne - the need to address the problem of voids within Dublin City Council, which cannot be re-let to tenants without necessary maintenance first being carried out; (10) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the need to assist workers at the SuperValu store in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, to which the owner is seeking to appoint a liquidator; (11) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the emerging preferred site options for the greater Dublin drainage project; (12) Deputy Michael McCarthy - the need to provide an adequate of special needs assistants to Maria Immaculate Community College, Dunmanway, County Cork; (13) Deputy Joe McHugh - all-island opportunities for developing a lighthouse tourism trail around the Irish coastline; (14) Deputy Martin Ferris - the consequences of changes to rent supplements; (15) Deputy Dessie Ellis - maintenance and refurbishment of social housing in the Dublin City Council area; (16) Deputies Olivia Mitchell, Maureen O'Sullivan and Anne Ferris - the need to use our EU presidency to ensure the EU prioritise sexual and reproductive health and rights, including family planning, in its input to the post 2015 (Millennium Development Goals) UN development agenda; (17) Deputy Niall Collins - the ongoing situation with bin collection in Dublin; (18) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the question of independence of bodies such as the ESRI following the withdrawal of the paper titled "The cost of working in Ireland" published yesterday; (19) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the new rent allowance limits, their effectiveness in forcing landlords to reduce rents and the impact on the need for emergency housing; (20) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - literacy levels amongst the unemployed; and (21) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the provision of funding towards the running costs of the Laura Lynn Children's Hospice, at the Sunshine Home, Dublin.
The matters raised Deputies Ann Phelan, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Paudie Coffey and Niall Collins have been selected for discussion.