I have received notice from Senator Denis O’Donovan that, on the motion for the Adjournment of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter:
The need for the Minister for Finance, in his capacity as principal shareholder in AIB, to outline the future of day-to-day banking facilities in remote rural areas such as Mizen Head as a result of the closure of all banking facilities in the entire peninsula.
I have also received notice from Senator Kathryn Reilly of the following matter:
The need for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to discuss the transport services available in rural areas, how and what service provision is being made to service rural areas and the role of semi-State companies in its provision.
I have also received notice from Senator Denis Landy of the following matter:
To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that funding has been withdrawn for tutors' travel and that a tutor delivering a suicide awareness course in the Nano Nagle Centre, Carrick-on-Suir, was withdrawn and that this funding be reinstated as a matter of urgency.
I have also received notice from Brian Ó Domhnaill of the following matter:
The need for the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the capital asset test implementation group report and to refrain from including the value of agricultural lands as capital assets in new means-testing arrangements for third-level maintenance grants.
I regard the matters raised by the Senators as suitable for discussion on the Adjournment and they will be taken at the conclusion of business.