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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 14 Feb 2013

Vol. 792 No. 3

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 Arthur Spring - the terms of redundancy offered to the staff of the IBRC; (2) Deputy Tom Hayes - the need to provide additional classrooms at Knockavilla national school, Dundrum, County Tipperary; (3) Deputy Pat Deering - the need to extend the hedge cutting season; (4) Deputies Finian McGrath and Dessie Ellis - the burning of a Traveller’s home in County Donegal; (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) Deputies Mattie McGrath and Michael Healy-Rae - the need to ensure public access to Coillte forests after the sale of the crop; (8) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need to address the continued geographical inequity of access to omalizumab, xolair, medication for asthma sufferers, especially in the HSE south region; (9) 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; (10) Deputy Alan Farrell - the need for insurance companies to provide home insurance for remediated pyrite properties; (11) 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; (12) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need for the introduction of changes to the social welfare code that will allow for the provision of social insurance cover for self-employed persons; (13) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the shortage of medical intern training places in July 2013; (14) Deputy Mick Wallace - Ireland's role in the practice of extraordinary rendition, as outlined in the report published last week entitled, Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition; (15) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the lack of availability of electronic ramps in Irish Rail stations; and (16) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - Providence Resources' surrender of the foreshore licence for Dublin Bay and the possibility of new environmental regulations.

The matters raised by Deputies Arthur Spring; Finian McGrath and Dessie Ellis; Alan Farrell; and Barry Cowen have been selected for discussion.

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