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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 14 Jul 2016

Topical Issue Matters

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Pat Deering - the need to top-up the contribution to County Carlow from the Equalisation Fund; (2) Deputy Mary Butler - concerns regarding the removal of the autism spectrum disorder, ASD, team in Waterford; (3) Deputy Eoin Ó Broin - concerns regarding the closure of the Boot Road dental clinic in Clondalkin, Dublin 22, and the provision of funding to ensure that the service remains open; (4) Deputy David Cullinane - concerns regarding the availability of insulin pump therapy services for patients with type 1 diabetes, the number of vacant endocrinologist posts, the average waiting time to see an endocrinologist or a diabetes consultant and the number of cardiac patients who are also diabetics at Waterford University Hospital; (5) Deputy Louise O'Reilly - the need for the Minister for Health to discuss his plans for the implementation of the national neuro-rehabilitation strategy; (6) Deputy Declan Breathnach - to ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he can give assurance to this Dáil that the current INTERREG programme funding of approximately €258 million and the current PEACE programme funding of €250 million will be honoured by the EU in order that the many projects due to commence by mid-summer can commence but also those projects planned for completion post Brexit; (7) Deputy Aindrias Moynihan - to ask the Minister for Transport to prioritise the N22 Macroom bypass in light of the TII report to Cork County Council yesterday which outlined that despite the commitment the N22 was a priority project on the current 2016-2021 programme and has started land purchase CPO, there would be no funding for construction in the current programme and it will be post-2021 for a new programme and any prospect of construction; (8) Deputy Alan Farrell - the need to refocus Government's efforts on cutting child care costs to support families; (9) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the demand for Gaelscoileanna is not being met; (10) Deputies Peter Burke and Brendan Smith - the future of accident and emergency departments in the midlands and in Cavan General Hospital, given reports concerning service cuts to trauma centres; (11) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the transfer of commercial and business property water charges accounts from local authorities to Irish Water; (12) Deputies Imelda Munster and Peter Fitzpatrick - the ongoing matter, which is entering its third week, of upwards of 51 families being denied respite services in St. Mary's, Drumcar, run by St. John of God services, despite being pre-booked for this much-needed service. The current difficulties faced by families trying to access respite services in St. John of God, Drumcar, for the summer months; (13) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - will the Minister for housing comment on the inability of a local authority - Dublin City Council - to prevent someone, a mother with three children, being made homeless who is within four places of being housed as per the local authority waiting list and if he, as Minister for housing, can intervene; (14) Deputy Brian Stanley - new rent supplement limits; (15) Deputy Kevin O'Keeffe - reversal of the decision to close wards in St. Patrick's Community Hospital in Fermoy, County Cork; (16) Deputy Jackie Cahill - will the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine explain how changes were made to the farmers' charter without input from the farm organisations as is the agreement for any changes to the charter; (17) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss the Chilcot report and the implications for Ireland in relation to the use of Shannon Airport by the US military; (18) Deputy Paul Murphy - the dispute between former Ulster Bank porters and Ulster Bank Limited concerning redundancy payments; (19) Deputy Thomas Pringle - premature removal of HSE funding in Donegal for SEN grants for children with disabilities attending mainstream pre-school education; (20) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the implications of the latest CSO growth figures for assessing the real financial and economic position of the State; (21) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss NAMA's failure to report under section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act the information it received in March 2014 regarding its Northern Ireland advisory committee member, Frank Cushnahan, and investment fund PIMCO; (22) Deputy Mick Barry - the need for the Office of Public Works, OPW, to release all files regarding the assembly of a site by Wexford Borough Council and the OPW for offices for the Department of Social Protection and the Revenue Commissioners in Anne Street, Wexford, over a 20-year period from 1983 so that a determination may be made on allegations of serious irregularities in that process; and (23) Deputy Barry Cowen - concerns that Bord na Móna is putting jobs at risk in its transport rail division with plans to outsource services and impose unilateral pay cuts on existing workers.

The matters raised by Deputies Pat Deering, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Peter Burke and Brendan Smith, and Kevin O'Keeffe have been selected for discussion.

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