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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 23 Sep 2014

Vol. 851 No. 2

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 Joe Costello - the need to put in place new educational facilities for All Hallows College, Dublin, to ensure its continuation as an educational campus; (2) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the staffing levels in Kerry General Hospital; (3) Deputy Robert Troy - the need for the Health Service Executive to put in place an early access programme for patients with hepatitis C to new direct acting antiviral; (4) Deputies Sean Fleming and Brian Stanley - the future provision of services at the accident and emergency department in Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise; (5) Deputy Frank Feighan - the need to include Cloonakilla national school, Bealnamulla, County Roscommon, in the school building programme; (6) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need for Irish Water to ensure that water meters are fully accessible to those with disabilities; (7) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need to examine the Labour Court recommendation of 2008 in respect of pension payments for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; (8) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the need to allow geographically isolated small schools to appeal the loss of mainstream teaching posts on grounds of geographic isolation and the lack of an amalgamation option; (9) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need for the Minister to address issues regarding his direction to the Commission for Aviation Regulation on 15 September 2014; (10) Deputy Seán Conlan - the need to retain all positions in the public service card section of the Department in Ballybay, County Monaghan; (11) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the Minister's proposals regarding the introduction of State-subsidised rural broadband and the timeline for such proposals to be completed; (12) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the need to review the appeals process on the allocation of teachers to small schools; (13) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to lobby the British Prime Minister to facilitate a referendum in the North of Ireland on full Irish independence; (14) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the need to address concerns that the decline in income and resources at the National Library of Ireland is impacting on the quality and preservation of its collection; (15) Deputy Michael McNamara - the need to address the beef price crisis; (16) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - the need for community rehabilitation services for stroke victims; (17) Deputy Róisín Shortall - the need to address the unacceptable handling of the review of medical cards for those aged over 70; (18) Deputy Seán Crowe - the need to address concerns due to cuts to funding for the school completion programme in officially designated disadvantaged areas; (19) Deputy Derek Nolan - the need for a new emergency department unit at University Hospital Galway; (20) Deputy Clare Daly - the need to discuss the air strikes inside Syria against IS; (21) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need to discuss the air strikes inside Syria against IS; (22) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the need to address the ongoing crisis in the provision of speech therapy services; (23) Deputy Michael McGrath - the implications for Ireland of the OECD report on base erosion and profit shifting and the Minister's policy actions subsequent to this report; (24) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the plans to address increases in inpatient, day case and outpatient waiting lists between January and July of this year; (25) Deputy Jim Daly - the need to double the capacity at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, to facilitate the treatment of up to 120 patients with spinal deformity each year; (26) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the need to discuss the role of Ireland in the devolution of powers to Northern Ireland following the Scottish referendum result; and (27) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - the need to address concerns regarding deduction at source payments of the local property tax by social welfare recipients.

The matters raised by Deputies Michael McGrath; Michael McNamara; Sean Fleming; and Brian Stanley and Frank Feighan have been selected for discussion.

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