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 Pat Breen - the need for funding for a roundabout at the junction at an entrance on the Tulla Road, Ennis, County Clare; (2) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the measures to be taken to reduce the misuse of drugs; (3) Deputy Sandra McLellan - the implications for the national monument at 14-17 Moore Street, Dublin 1, of the pending auction of the Chartered Land loan portfolio; (4) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - the implications for the national monument at 14-17 Moore Street, Dublin 1, of the pending auction of the Chartered Land loan portfolio; (5) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the INMO's findings that June 2015 was the worst month in emergency departments here since the INMO started keeping records; (6) Deputy Jim Daly - the need for the Central Bank of Ireland to clarify the number of distressed mortgages that were converted from tracker to variable rate as part of solutions offered to borrowers; (7) Deputy Dara Calleary - the supports planned for voluntary housing associations liable for water charges; (8) Deputy Joan Collins - the shortfall in funding of over €18 million to Dublin City Council for the provision of services for the homeless; (9) Deputy Dan Neville - the need to address issues raised in the report, Connecting for Life: Ireland's National Strategy to Reduce Suicide 2015-2020; (10) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the need to provide pension entitlements to community employment supervisors; (11) Deputy Brian Stanley - the need to support autism services in County Laois; (12) Deputy Mary Lou McDonald - the shortfall in funding of over €18 million to Dublin City Council for the provision of services for the homeless; (13) Deputy Michelle Mulherin - the need to address accommodation issues at Oliver Plunkett national school, Ballina, County Mayo; (14) Deputy Bobby Aylward - the challenges faced by small business in Carlow and Kilkenny due to the delay in receiving a compliance certificate from the National Standards Authority of Ireland; (15) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the introduction of a recreational blue-fin tuna fishery here; (16) Deputy Clare Daly - the need to establish an independent inquiry into the activities of NAMA; (17) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the continuing difficulties for patients on the waiting list for the national pancreas transplant programme; (18) Deputy Shane Ross - the need for an immediate freeze on any proposed increases to ministerial pensions; (19) Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice - the need for an immediate freeze on any proposed increases to ministerial pensions; (20) Deputy Finian McGrath - the need for an immediate freeze on any proposed increases to ministerial pensions; (21) Deputy John Halligan - the need for an immediate freeze on any proposed increases to ministerial pensions; (22) Deputy Tom Fleming - the need for an immediate freeze on any proposed increases to ministerial pensions; (23) Deputy Bernard J. Durkan - the need to address the stalled development of the town centre at Naas, County Kildare; (24) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the proposed changes to bus routes in the Dún Laoghaire area, County Dublin; (25) Deputy Brendan Smith - the need to ensure a full investigation into collusion between British state forces and terrorists in Northern Ireland; (26) Deputy Jonathan O'Brien - the need to address the high costs of back-to-school obligations for parents; (27) Deputy Martin Heydon - the need for faster roll-out of the broadband plan for rural Ireland; (28) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need to establish an independent inquiry into the activities of NAMA; (29) Deputy Helen McEntee - the need to introduce a screening programme, similar to BreastCheck, for the early detection of prostate cancer; and (30) Deputy Barry Cowen - the shortfall in funding of over €18 million to Dublin City Council for the provision of services for the homeless.
The matters raised by Deputies Jim Daly, Dan Neville, Brendan Smith and Jonathan O'Brien have been selected for discussion.