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 Helen McEntee - the need for the pyrite levy Bill to be passed before the summer recess; (2) Deputy Shane Ross - the policy of increasing the pupil-teacher ratio in fee-paying schools; (3) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the provision of ambulance services in the Naas area of County Kildare; (4) Deputy Gerald Nash - the need to ensure the work of home helps is fully recognised and the budgetary commitment to restore the hours cut from the service last year is fully met; (5) Deputy Paschal Donohoe - the effects on part-time workers of the inclusion of Sunday as a working day for persons on social protection payments; (6) Deputy Dan Neville - the number of deaths from suicide in 2012; (7) Deputy Seán Kyne - the allocation of moneys to Comhar na nOileáin Teoranta in the recent Leader funding announcement; (8) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the allocation of moneys in the recent Leader funding announcement, in particular the shortfall of moneys for Gaeltacht regions; (9) Deputy Noel Harrington - the impact on energy security of the proposed sale of the oil storage terminal based on Whiddy Island in Bantry Bay and the oil refinery based at Whitegate in County Cork; (10) Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor - the issue of domestic violence, specifically in relation to the Women's Aid report; (11) Deputy Michael P. Kitt - the reduction in community project funds, Leader funding, in County Galway; (12) Deputy Michael McNamara - the use of the Finance Act as a blueprint for the regeneration of small towns and villages; (13) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to provide additional staffing resources for the acute psychiatric unit at Roscommon County Hospital; (14) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need for a new valuation process to be implemented to assist small businesses; (15) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to provide additional resources to An Garda Síochána and to review legislation on the sale of alcohol in seaside resorts including Portmarnock and Howth, County Dublin; (16) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the need to keep open St. Agnes's special needs preschool in Donegal town open; (17) Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly - the reports of the US National Security Agency's programme of indiscriminate information gathering and surveillance; (18) Deputy Clare Daly - the call by the Road Safety Authority for an independent inquiry into the termination of penalty points; (19) Deputy Joan Collins - the need for a temporary protection mechanism to be invoked by the European Commission to deal with the problem of refugees from Syria; (20) Deputy Mick Wallace - the call by the Road Safety Authority for an independent investigation into the penalty points controversy; (21) Deputy Joe Higgins - the response of the Turkish authorities to protests in Istanbul; (22) Deputy Michael Moynihan - the implications for the privacy rights of Irish citizens of the gathering of digital information by the US National Security Agency; (23) Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan - mental health services in County Roscommon; (24) Deputies Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Barry Cowen - the proposal to build a large sewage plant at Clonshaugh, County Dublin; (25) Deputies Eamonn Maloney and Anthony Lawlor - the quality control and integrity of State examination papers; (26) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the proposed new rent allowance limits and the risk of homelessness; (27) Deputy John Deasy - the need for additional capital funding to facilitate the runway extension at Waterford Regional Airport; (28) Deputy Brendan Smith - the need to progress to construction stage the proposed building project at St. Kilian's national school in Mullagh, County Cavan; (29) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the implications for the future of the M50 of a recent report by the NRA; (30) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to increase the level of rent supplement that is paid; (31) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the issue of fatal foetal abnormalities in the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill; and (32) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need for measures to deal with street harassment particularly of a sexual or threatening nature levelled at women as highlighted by the Hollaback movement.
The matters raised by Deputies Helen McEntee; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Barry Cowen; Shane Ross; and Eamonn Maloney and Anthony Lawlor have been selected for discussion.