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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2015

Vol. 872 No. 1

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 or Members in each case: (1) Deputies Clare Daly and Mick Wallace - the deteriorating situation in Syria on the fourth anniversary of the conflict; (2) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need for measures to be introduced to reduce the burden of child care costs; (3) Deputy Derek Keating - the need to address the lead-in time for registration of UK-trained nurses by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; (4) Deputy Pat Breen - the need to support the GAA in seeking UNESCO intangible cultural heritage status for hurling; (5) Deputy Alan Farrell - the need to amend proposals to route construction traffic through Donabate town centre for the construction of the national forensic mental hospital; (6) Deputy Lucinda Creighton - the need to secure the future of the school completions programme and oversee its expansion by ring-fencing funding for the years to come; (7) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the decision to establish a full PRI scheme for end-of-life tyres in February 2015; (8) Deputy Frank Feighan - the status of the Garda station in Boyle, County Roscommon; (9) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - concerns regarding the delivery of the SICAP and the need to ensure a Connemara-based delivery of it, (10) Deputy Sean Fleming - concerns regarding the publication of a HIQA report into maternity services at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, County Laois; (11) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to ensure twilight premium payments for social care workers in Galway and Roscommon as is done in other parts of the country; (12) Deputy Regina Doherty - changes to funding of the Tús scheme; (13) Deputy Joe Costello - the need to ensure that Dunnes Stores engages in the industrial relations machinery available to avoid industrial action; (14) Deputy Barry Cowen - concerns that figures for 46,000 houses to be built in Dublin are exaggerated due to the lack of zoned land to meet the requirement; (15) Deputy Timmy Dooley - recent findings that road deaths tend to be significantly higher in counties with low numbers of penalty points; (16) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the housing strategy in light of accusations of spin doctoring; (17) Deputy Billy Kelleher - concerns regarding the publication of a HIQA report into maternity services at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, County Laois; (18) Deputy Colm Keaveney - reports of an increase in cases where electroconvulsive therapy has been used against a patient's will; (19) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the lack of availability of inpatient beds for children with mental health difficulties; (20) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the need for a new school building for St. Mary's national school, Stranorlar, County Donegal; and (21) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the need to provide clarity to those organisations in receipt of bridging funding under the scheme to support national organisations.

The matters raised by Deputies Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, Frank Feighan, Joe Costello and Timmy Dooley have been selected for discussion.

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