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 Seán Ó Fearghaíl - concerns regarding reports that specially designed ambulances for the Defence Forces have been found to pose a high risk of injury to paramedics; (2) Deputy Brendan Griffin - the need to upgrade the N22 Kerry to Cork Road; (3) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to allocate funding to address the waiting list for disability extensions for citizens with a disability and high medical priority; (4) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - recent recommendations to reduce the reliance on temporary and short-term contracts in the education sector; (5) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the lack of availability of inpatient beds for children with mental health difficulties; (6) Deputy Brendan Smith - the need for EirGrid to consider alternatives to overhead power lines and pylons for the North-South interconnector; (7) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - the availability of Regorafenib through the Health Service Executive for the treatment of patients with cancer; (8) Deputy Brian Stanley - the need to legislate in respect of zero-hour contracts in the context of today's large scale industrial action by employees of Dunnes Stores; (9) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need to address barriers to borrowing from the Housing Finance Agency for housing associations; (10) Deputy Dan Neville - the need for regulation of counselling and psychotherapy; (11) Deputy Lucinda Creighton - the need to secure the future of the school completions programmes and to oversee its expansion by ring-fencing funding in future years; (12) Deputy Clare Daly - the need for the management of Dunnes Stores to engage with its workers and to resolve their legitimate demands; (13) Deputy Robert Troy - the need to address local authority social housing targets and to provide details on how local authorities will be expected to provide the additional housing units within the budget provided; (14) Deputy Colm Keaveney - regional variation in the provision of early intervention services for children; (15) Deputy David Stanton - on World Autism Day, the progress made in the development of a network of autism spectrum disorder special classes and early intervention classes in primary and post-primary schools and also the role in the involvement in the development of a national autism strategy; (16) Deputy Dara Calleary - the need to outline his response to the HIQA inspection at the Áras Attracta care home in Swinford, County Mayo; and (17) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - concerns regarding the industrial action being taken today by employees of Dunnes Store, the most extensive action that has taken place in the State for some time, arising from the prevalence of low paid insecure work and its impact on the economy.
The matters raised by Deputies David Stanton, Charlie McConalogue, Dan Neville and Dessie Ellis have been selected for discussion.