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 Terence Flanagan - the need for adequate funding to prevent the closure of Kilbarrack Youth Project; (2) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to provide a housing solution for persons forced into homelessness; (3) Deputy Eoghan Murphy - the increase in demand for primary school places in September 2014 in Dublin south east; (4) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - the recent developments in relation to Moore Street; (5) Deputies Derek Nolan and Ciara Conway - the doubling of the carbon tax on solid fuel; (7) Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan - the issue that the chance of a patient dying within a month of an operation increases by 7% for every extra patient added to the workload; (8) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the moratorium on hiring community employment supervisors; (9) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the distress and expense caused to discretionary medical card holders who are selected for a review before the expiration of their medical card; (10) Deputy Robert Troy - the urgent need to reverse the decision by the Department of Social Protection to abolish the subsidy to the bus operator servicing the route between Cavan and Longford which will result in the route being discontinued; (11) Deputy Brendan Smith - the need to progress the Haass talks to a successful conclusion; (12) Deputy Michael Colreavy - to discuss the loss of maternity services at Sligo Regional Hospital; (13) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss a Europe-wide study which has found that patient-to-nurse ratios and the level of a nurse’s education directly affect the number of deaths after routine surgery; (14) Deputy John Paul Phelan - the need to address the situation regarding the Rohingya people both internally in Burma and those in exile in refugee camps; (15) Deputy Barry Cowen - the new building regulations due to come into effect on 1 March 2014; (16) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss the recent European study relating to the falling numbers of nursing staff per patient ratio and the increase in deaths after surgery; (17) Deputy Dan Neville - regulating psychotherapy and counselling; and (18) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the serious build defects uncovered in homes under the control of Túath Housing in the Gallery Quay development in Dublin's Docklands.
The matters raised by the Deputies John Paul Phelan; Derek Nolan and Ciara Conway; Barry Cowen; and Catherine Murphy have been selected for discussion.