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 Patrick O'Donovan - the need for the Office of Public Works to establish consultative groups to improve the visitor experience at OPW heritage sites; (2) Deputy Terence Flanagan - concerns regarding the presence of lead in the water supply in some areas of Dublin Bay North; (3) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the impact of the superlevy bills on farmers here; (4) Deputy Michelle Mulherin - overcrowding of the train from Dublin to Ballina, Castlebar and Westport, County Mayo, particularly during the recent June bank holiday weekend; (5) Deputy Billy Timmins - the way in which the allocation of funding for housing programmes for local authorities is calculated; (6) Deputy Jack Wall - the status of services at Portlaoise hospital, County Laois; (7) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd - the need to improve Louth-Meath child protection service provision; (8) Deputy Brian Stanley - the proposed downgrading of the accident and emergency unit and other services at Portlaoise hospital, County Laois; (9) Deputy Frank Feighan - the proposed closure of the Rosalie unit in Castlerea, County Roscommon; (10) Deputy Alan Farrell - the need for the HSE to provide an alternative route for construction traffic for the national forensic mental hospital; (11) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the need for a new school at Carrabane national school, Carrabane, County Galway; (12) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to escalate the construction of vital radiology services in South Tipperary General Hospital; (13) Deputy Martin Heydon - the impact on Kildare residents of any changes to accident and emergency services at Portlaoise hospital, County Laois; (14) Deputy Denis Naughten - the downgrading of the accident and emergency department at Portlaoise hospital, County Laois; (15) Deputies Thomas Pringle, Dinny McGinley and Pearse Doherty - the need to ensure the sustainability of the NowDoc GP out-of-hours service in County Donegal; (16) Deputy Timmy Dooley - concerns regarding shortcomings in ambulatory and accident and emergency services in the County Clare area; (17) Deputy Sean Fleming - the future of acute services at the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, County Laois; (18) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the use of banks for social welfare payments rather than post offices; (19) Deputy Dessie Ellis - Tusla's decision to cease funding the Rape Crisis Network; (20) Deputy Dan Neville - the need to discuss the recent report regarding eating disorders; (21) Deputy Robert Troy - the use of banks for social welfare payments rather than post offices; (22) Deputy Joan Collins - Tusla's decision to cease funding the Rape Crisis Network; (23) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need for greater social housing provision in County Wexford; (24) Deputy Mary Lou McDonald - concerns emerging from recent media reports of a 2012 internal HSE investigations into the Bessborough and Tuam mother and baby homes; (25) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - the failure of the national recruitment service in the recruitment of hospital staff; (26) Deputy Willie Penrose - steps taken to honour the recommendation of the Labour Court regarding the pension scheme for community scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors; (27) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to allocate funding to Dublin local authorities and Focus Ireland to address the crisis of families with young children experiencing homelessness; (28) Deputy Clare Daly - the failure to vindicate the human rights of women in the context of the eighth amendment to the Constitution, as highlighted in recent report by the UNHRC and Amnesty International; (29) Deputy Helen McEntee - the publication of revised wind energy guidelines; (30) Deputy Niall Collins - the need to increase sentencing for those who assault emergency workers and the elderly; (31) Deputy Sandra McLellan - concerns over recent reports of the 2012 internal HSE investigation into the mother and baby home of Bessborough; (32) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the filling of mental health positions in 2014 and 2015; and (33) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need to ensure a full range of cardiac services in Sligo hospital.
The matters raised by Deputies Willie Penrose, Seamus Kirk and Michelle Mulherin and the matter raised by Deputies Thomas Pringle, Dinny McGinley and Pearse Doherty have been selected for discussion.