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 Brendan Smith - the need to engage immediately with the senior management of BOSE Corporation to reverse the company's decision to close its manufacturing facility in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; (2) Deputy Pat Rabbitte - the options open to residents living with anti-social behaviour; (3) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need for a fresh inquiry into the Stardust fire; (4) Deputy Seán Conlan - that need to ensure the communities affected by the North-South inter-connector are consulted by EirGrid about specific underground route options before the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources allows it make any fresh application to An Bord Pleanála; (5) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the concerns regarding the primary online database; (6) Deputy Mick Wallace - the latest revelations of widespread breaches of the penalty points system; (7) Deputy Áine Collins - the need to persuade the Irish Sports Council to recognise the Trout Anglers Federation of Ireland as a national governing body, NGB; (8) Deputy Clare Daly - the IAG takeover bid for Aer Lingus; (9) Deputy Billy Timmins - the implications following the recent Supreme Court judgment with respect to the Mahon-Flood tribunal; (10) Deputy Niall Collins - the Garda professional standards unit report on penalty points; (11) Deputy Michael Moynihan - the shortage of kidney transplant surgeons; (12) Deputy Finian McGrath - the sale of Aer Lingus; (13) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - in light of the announcement from the Central Bank yesterday regarding the revised rules on mortgage lending for first-time buyers, the need to amend the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014 regarding one-off houses; (14) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - the need for regulations to administer mortgages in distress; (15) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the protection of Irish airports' access to London Heathrow and the IAG bid for ownership of Aer Lingus; (16) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the urgent need to clarify the status of enhanced redundancy claims for former workers of the Tipperary hostel project; (17) Deputy Bernard J. Durkan - the difficulties experienced by parents seeking to enrol their children at Scoil Uí Riada, Kilcock, County Kildare; (18) Deputy Paul Murphy - the offer by IAG to purchase the Government's share in Aer Lingus; (19) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell - the takeover bid by the IAG group for Aer Lingus and the need to maintain the Heathrow slots; (20) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the reports that the parents of a four-year-old cancer patient who was turned down for a medical card are being pursued by a hospital debt collector for almost €1,000 in care-related bills; (21) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the need to address Ireland's fall in a European health ranking survey, with specific regard to waiting lists; (22) Deputy Ruth Coppinger - the offer by IAG to purchase the Government's share in Aer Lingus; and (23) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need to address the plight of deferred pensioners in the Irish airlines superannuation scheme, IASS.
The matters raised by Deputies Pat Rabbitte, Charlie McConalogue, Bernard J. Durkan and Billy Timmins have been selected for discussion.