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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 13 Feb 2013

Vol. 792 No. 2

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 Michael Moynihan - the need to grant additional time to Presentation Convent national school, Millstreet, County Cork to consider its grant application; (2) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the plans by the HSE to fill positions using the JobBridge scheme and whether those hired will progress to full contracts; (3) Deputy Dan Neville - the relationship between alcohol and suicide and self-harming; (4) Deputy Arthur Spring - the terms of redundancy offered to the staff of the IBRC; (5) Deputy Michael McNamara - the need for constitutional change on upward-only rent reviews; (6) Deputy Joan Collins - the levels of dampness and condensation in local authority and voluntary housing agency housing stock; (7) Deputy Jim Daly - the need to provide emergency funding for Cork County Council to deal with the crumbling road network in west Cork; (8) Deputy Ann Phelan - the need to lower the rate of VAT on nicotine replacement patches and similar technology to a special rate of 5%; (9) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the need to exempt from the property charge houses affected by radon gas; (10) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the introduction of measures to ensure the robustness of the system to endorse the licences of motorists who have incurred penalty points for driving offences; (11) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - the need for best practice in the employment policies of Irish Water; (12) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need for the inclusion of motor neuron disease as one of the medical conditions that qualify under the long-term illness scheme; (13) Deputy Robert Troy - the need to act on upward-only rent reviews; (14) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the need to discuss the case of a person, details supplied, in County Monaghan diagnosed with autism; (15) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need to ensure the speedy implementation of Delivering a Connected Society: A National Broadband Plan for Ireland; (16) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to extend the fuel rebate announced in budget 2013 to agricultural contractors; (17) Deputy Michael McGrath - the legacy issues at the former Irish Nationwide Building Society and the need to publish the reports by McCann Fitzgerald and Ernst & Young concerning corporate governance issues at the society; (18) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the lack of availability of electronic ramps in Irish Rail stations; (19) Deputy Niall Collins - the need to address the concerns of rank and file gardaí about the future of community policing; (20) Deputy Barry Cowen - the need to boost competition in the electricity market by giving the go-ahead for new power plants such as at Lumcloon in Ferbane, County Offaly; (21) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the proposed property tax exemptions; (22) Deputy Finian McGrath - the burning of a Traveller’s home in County Donegal; and (23) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the need for the HSE to restore funding to the Helping Hands Adoption Agency.

The matters raised by Deputies Ann Phelan, Michael Healy-Rae, Deputy Dan Neville and Seán Ó Fearghaíl have been selected for discussion.

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