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 Shane Ross - the reason for the Minister's votes in favour of all board resolutions at the recent AIB and Bank of Ireland AGMs; (2) Deputy Michael Colreavy - the proposal to grant Shell an industrial emissions licence in respect of its operations at the Bellanaboy refinery without a full environmental impact assessment; (3) Deputy Seán Kenny - the need for Irish Water and Dublin City Council to tackle the problem posed by the presence of lead water piping at St. Anne’s estate, Raheny, Dublin 5; (4) Deputies Anthony Lawlor and Bernard J. Durkan - the need to increase Garda resources in north-west Kildare, given the escalation of intimidation against gardaí and residents in the Carbury area in particular; (5) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need for improved communications and collaboration between relevant Departments, the Road Safety Authority, the Garda and the Courts Service regarding penalty points; (6) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the need to address hospital waiting lists in view of recent statistics; (7) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the need to reinstate the availability of the drug Fampyra for multiple sclerosis sufferers; (8) Deputy Lucinda Creighton - the miscarriage of justice suffered by Harry Gleeson, executed in 1941; (9) Deputy Clare Daly - concerns about issues raised at the Garda Representative Association conference, with particular reference to calls for access to greater repressive apparatus and the implications for the development of a modern police service; (10) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - concerns regarding the OECD report on the minimum wage, including the current rate payable; (11) Deputy Mick Wallace - the calls at the GRA conference for greater repressive apparatus to be issued to gardaí, and the implications for human-rights-based policing; (12) Deputy Robert Troy - the implications of the World Health Organisation's latest report on obesity; and (13) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the emergence of information into the public domain which contradicts a statement to Dáil Éireann concerning very serious developments in which the State lost over €100 million.
The matters raised by Deputies Anthony Lawlor and Bernard J. Durkan, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, Eamonn Maloney, and Shane Ross have been selected for discussion.