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 McCarthy - the need to propose ways to revive town centres by ensuring a retail mix in towns; (2) Deputy Simon Harris - the need for an engineering and maintenance review of the N11; (3) Deputy Joe Higgins - the failure to make funding available for the extension to Castleknock community college, Dublin; (4) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to confirm whether evidence was withdrawn before the publication of the 2009 Coffey report into the Stardust tragedy; (5) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - the pricing of locally purchased prescription drugs; (6) Deputy Jonathan O'Brien - the need to examine the way in which the State Examination Commission allocates grammar, spelling, reading and writing waivers for young people with learning difficulties sitting the leaving certificate examination; (7) Deputy Seán Crowe - the lack of adequate fire safety in an affordable housing development at Foxford Court, Lucan, County Dublin; (8) Deputy Michael P. Kitt - the need for increased community alert schemes in rural Ireland following a recent aggravated burglary in County Galway; (9) Deputy Ciara Conway - what measures the Minister could take to assist vulnerable householders with their heating bills given current severe weather conditions; (10) Deputy Willie O'Dea - the need to extend the timeframe for the availability of the fuel allowance in view of the current weather conditions; (11) Deputy Derek Nolan - the need to extend the payment of the fuel allowance to take account of the recent unseasonably cold weather conditions; (12) Deputy Michael McNamara - the need to extend fuel allowance due to unseasonal weather; (13) Deputy Seamus Healy - the need to extend the free fuel season by a further six weeks in view of the exceptionally poor weather conditions; (14) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the need to extend the free fuel season in view of the exceptionally poor weather conditions; (15) Deputy Mick Wallace - fire safety concerns at Foxford Court in Lucan, County Dublin; (16) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need to consider the requirements for a pyrite contaminated home to be excluded from the property tax; (17) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the plight of the nursery-horticulture industry in south Tipperary and throughout the country; (18) Deputy Niall Collins - the need to discuss measures to combat social media and telecommunication use by prisoners in jails throughout the country; (19) Deputy Joan Collins - the need to extend the period of the provision of the fuel allowance; (20) Deputy Clare Daly - the position regarding residents having to leave properties sold under the affordable scheme by South Dublin County Council in Lucan because of the lack of adequate fire stopping; (21) Deputy Michelle Mulherin - the need to direct EirGrid to implement Smart Grid technical solutions as a pilot project to stretch the network capacity and minimise constraints in north Mayo and to facilitate the number of wind and biomass electricity generating projects; (22) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need to examine an extension to the 9% VAT rate for tourism related services to the coach and bus sector; (23) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need for health insurance policies to be exempt from any personal insolvency service deals on debt write down; (24) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - Ireland's debt deal and the implications of the recent deal in Cyprus; and (25) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need to extend the payment of the fuel allowance to take account of the recent unseasonably cold weather conditions.
The matters raised by Deputies Thomas P. Broughan, Michael P. Kitt, Eamonn Maloney and Michelle Mulherin have been selected for discussion.