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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012

Vol. 777 No. 4

Topical Issue Matters

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 Derek Keating - the problems in collecting social welfare payments at Lucan village, Dublin; (2) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - the possible reopening of the pilot training college in Waterford by a different company; (3) Deputy James Bannon - the provision of additional temporary accommodation for Lanesboro College, County Longford; (4) Deputy John O'Mahony - the need to address the waiting times for applications for social protection, particularly carer's allowance; (5) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the need for fire services to be activated immediately when the ambulance service is called to an incident; (6) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the reason reform of the junior certificate will take eight years and the need for a detailed implementation plan; (7) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - the need to address the problems with community employment schemes which are undergoing difficulty in recruiting participants due to changes in social welfare payments and participants' fears of losing their benefits; (8) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the need to maintain the home help service; (9) Deputy Paudie Coffey - the need to re-evaluate the financial governance processes and protocols that pertain to educational schools and colleges; (10) Deputies Charles Flanagan and Eoghan Murphy - State funding of fee-charging secondary schools; (11) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the reason families whose homes were flooded in 2009 have yet to receive compensation; (12) Deputy Joe McHugh - the provision of adequate support for sufferers of Huntington's disease; (13) Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy - the proposed cuts to Bus Éireann services to Moneygall, County Offaly; (14) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the proposed closure by means of compulsory purchase order of level crossing XC147, County Tipperary; (15) Deputy Clare Daly - the delay of the expert group on the A, B and C v. Ireland judgment in reporting its findings; (16) Deputy Willie O'Dea - the problems with defined benefit schemes; (17) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need to give permanent recognition to Mol an Óige Steiner national school, Ennistymon, and Raheen Wood Steiner national school, Tuamgraney, County Clare; (18) Deputy John McGuinness - the delay in the construction project at Loreto school, Kilkenny; (19) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the establishment of the constitutional convention; (20) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the continued risks to residents in the Gleann Riada estate, Longford; (21) Deputy John Lyons - the enforcement of company law in respect of property management agents; (22) Deputy Dara Calleary - the need to make credit available to small businesses in view of the report from the Credit Review Office; (23) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the position of teachers employed in VECs in view of new Teaching Council regulations; (24) Deputy Mick Wallace - the landing of over-quota fish at Kilmore Quay, County Wexford; and (25) Deputy Mary Lou McDonald - the need to address the deficit in the Irish aviation superannuation scheme.

The matters raised by Deputies Charles Flanagan and Eoghan Murphy; John Lyons; Willie O'Dea; and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn have been selected for discussion.

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