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 Gerald Nash - the need to re-examine the winding down of the charitable lotteries scheme; (2) Deputy Pat Breen - the recent changes in eligibility criteria for participants in community employment schemes, particularly those in the Kilrush and Ballyea areas of County Clare; (3) Deputy John O'Mahony - the procedures used by North East Leader Company, County Mayo, and the effects they have on funding, following the investigation by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; (4) Deputy Tom Fleming - the effect of changes in the management of commonages across the country; (5) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the negative impact of the proposed alignment of the 52 local development companies with local authorities; (6) Deputy Paschal Donohoe - the steps that can be taken to ensure that banks pass on the additional mortgage interest relief; (7) Deputy Seamus Healy - the need to approve the cancer drug zytiga for inclusion under the medical card scheme; (8) Deputy Ann Phelan - the establishment of a DNA database in respect of indigenous ash plants; (9) Deputy Simon Harris - the need for the provision of a hospice in County Wicklow; (10) Deputy Robert Troy - the Supreme Court's finding on the recent referendum on the rights of children; (11) Deputy James Bannon - the potential national fallout of the loss of approximately 100 jobs at Ericsson, Athlone, County Westmeath; (12) Deputy Regina Doherty - the need to relax the rule whereby businesses that let premises are liable for the rates arrears of the previous tenants; (13) Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor - the need for greater awareness and action to protect victims of violence in the home; (14) Deputy Finian McGrath - the need for a commission of investigation into the murder, in 1985, of Father Niall Molloy; (15) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the situation regarding the referendum on children's rights and the information distributed by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to the general public; (16) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the failure to open the new purpose-built, 70-bed public nursing home in Inchicore, Dublin, and the Minister for Health's plans with regard to same; (17) Deputies Patrick Nulty, Mick Wallace, Clare Daly, Joan Collins, Richard Boyd Barrett, Joe Higgins and Catherine Murphy - the need to legislate for the X case following the death at University College Hospital, Galway, of Ms Savita Halappanavar; (18) Deputy Derek Keating - the need to take action to deal with the increased incidence of tuberculosis in Dublin; (19) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need to discuss the auditor's report on CIE; (20) Deputy Niall Collins - yesterday's incident in Dalkey, County Dublin, involving a 14-year-old wielding a knife; (21) Deputy Liam Twomey - the need to reduce orthopaedic outpatient waiting times for patients in the south east; (22) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - the criteria set down by the Health Service Executive for entry onto the GMS panel which are contributing to the closure of a health provider in Ballycullen, Dublin 24; (23) Deputy Ciarán Lynch - the need to improve the residential property register by the inclusion of additional relevant, readily available, information; (24) Deputy Kevin Humphreys - the need to co-locate the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, with St. Vincent's hospital, on the Elm Park site; (25) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the delay in the payment of compensation to victims of floods in 2009; and (26) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need to address issues with the rent supplement scheme, particularly in view of the report on the matter by Focus Ireland.
The matters raised by Deputies Mary Mitchell O'Connor; Ciarán Lynch; Timmy Dooley; and Patrick Nulty, Mick Wallace, Clare Daly, Joan Collins, Richard Boyd Barrett, Joe Higgins and Catherine Murphy have been selected for discussion.