Before coming to Topical Issue Matters, I ask the Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach to move a motion.I move:
That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the Order of the Dáil of today, the Dáil shall sit later than 5.45 p.m. and shall adjourn on the conclusion of Oral Questions. Question put and agreed to.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 Stephen S. Donnelly - DART services running with fewer than the usual number of carriages; (2) Deputy Jim Daly - the options available to persons contractually obliged to retire after January 2014 who are not eligible for a pension payment for a further 12 months; (3) Deputy Billy Timmins - the reason for the disruption to the DART service on Monday, 14 October 2013; (4) Deputy Andrew Doyle - the need to review Irish Rail's carriage policy on DART services in the greater Dublin area; (5) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the impact on commuters as a result of Irish Rail's new carriage numbers on DART services; (6) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to engage in an urgent discussion about the proposed EirGrid grid link project; (7) Deputies John O'Mahony and Anthony Lawlor - the proposed large increase in rates levied on sports stadia around the country; (8) Deputies Gerry Adams and Dessie Ellis - the reports of a conflict of interest relating to the purchase of two homes belonging to two senior executive officers by Louth County Council for use as social housing; (9) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need for emergency funding to be provided to the St. Nicholas of Myra Centre; (10) Deputy Clare Daly - the pyrite remediation scheme; (11) Deputy Joan Collins - the continued escalating industrial relations dispute between the Arcadia group, owner of Wallis retail outlets; (12) Deputy Mick Wallace - the levying of industries for pyrite repair costs; (13) Deputy Barry Cowen - the new pyrite resolution scheme; (14) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the industrial action by retail workers at Wallis in Dublin and Limerick; and (15) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the reason the report of the working group on malaria chemoprophylaxis is not being published.
The matters raised by Deputies John O'Mahony and Anthony Lawlor; Deputies Seán Ó Fearghaíl; and Deputies Gerry Adams and Dessie Ellis have been selected for discussion.