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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 11 Nov 2014

Vol. 857 No. 3

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 Regina Doherty - the new wind energy planning guidelines; (2) Deputy Sean Fleming - the funding of the school meals local project scheme in Scoil Bhríde, Portlaoise, County Laois; (3) Deputy Lucinda Creighton - the deteriorating tax environment for productive investment in small and medium-sized enterprises here; (4) Deputy Michael Creed - the need for better co-ordinated transport arrangements between the Department of Education and Skills and the HSE in respect of children moving from special education provision to adult services where currently no transport assistance is provided for those attending adult services regardless of the distance travelled; (5) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - the need to restore the free bus pass allowance to the Buncrana, County Donegal to Derry city bus route for the elderly and disabled citizens who rely on this service; (6) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the overcrowding problems currently being experienced at Naas General Hospital; (7) Deputy Terence Flanagan - problems with the processing of medical card applications in PCRS; (8) Deputy Billy Timmins - to ask the Minister for Health if clinical directive 03/2014, which came into effect on 6 November 2014, means that heart attack patients under the control of the emergency services can no longer avail of the facility at St. Vincent's hospital, but have to go to the Mater hospital or St. James's Hospital; (9) Deputy Michael P. Kitt - the current business plan for An Post and the way it affects services in County Galway; (10) Deputy Helen McEntee - to ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the revised wind energy guidelines will be published and whether he can clarify if existing applications submitted to An Bord Pleanála where no decision has been made will be assessed under the new guidelines; (11) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need for the Minister for Health to ensure that patients in receipt of fair deal nursing home support are not charged for entertainment or activities, contrary to the nursing home regulations; (12) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need for a new process of allocating resources to prioritise the construction of new Garda stations and refurbish existing ones; (13) Deputy Olivia Mitchell - to raise the issue of public concerns regarding reports of historical cases of tax evasion by senior political figures and the investigation by the relevant authorities of such matters; (14) Deputy Martin Heydon - staffing issues at Naas General Hospital; (15) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need for the Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify the plans for the Garda presence in Galway and the western division arising from reports concerning the future of Salthill Garda station; (16) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - staffing issues at Naas General Hospital; (17) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the urgent need for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to clarify the funding position for the Irish Deaf Society; (18) Deputy Pat Deering - the need for signs on the M9 and other tourist services and facilities at St. Mullins in County Carlow as St. Mullins is one of the major 7th century monastic sites in the country and the Book of Moling sits alongside the Book of Durrow and the Book of Kells in Trinity College Dublin; (19) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss the Garda Inspectorate report and implications for reform of the Garda; (20) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss the implications of the findings of the Garda Inspectorate report; (21) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the need to protect tenants from losing their homes in the case of sale, repossession or receivership proceedings on the house they are renting; (22) Deputy Robert Troy - the need for the Minister for Justice and Equality to discuss the crime rates in Longford; (23) Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice - the beef farmers' protests, whereby if these farmers' needs are not addressed, the risk that producers will give up because they cannot survive; (24) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the need for the Minister for Health to make a statement to the Dáil on media reports that he has informed the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform that his Department does not have the funding to equip the proposed new national children's hospital; (25) Deputy Paul Murphy - the ongoing industrial dispute at J.J. Rhatigan in Kishoge community school, Lucan; (26) Deputy Joe Higgins - the ongoing industrial dispute at J.J. Rhatigan in Kishoge community school, Lucan; (27) Deputy Ruth Coppinger - the industrial dispute at J.J. Rhatigan in Kishoge community school, Lucan; (28) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need to cease payment to the principal contractor, J.J. Rhatigan, at the school construction site in Kishoge, west Dublin, funded by the Department of Education and Skills, pending a full investigation of alleged mistreatment of workers and tax compliance issues; and (29) Deputy Martin Ferris - the future status of Lenamore school, Ballylongford, County Kerry.

The matters raised by Deputies Regina Doherty and Helen McEntee; Michael P. Kitt; and Paul Murphy, Joe Higgins, Ruth Coppinger and Richard Boyd Barrett have been selected for discussion.

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