I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Finian McGrath — new cancer services at Beaumont Hospital; (2) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan — to address the decision of the HSE to withdraw funding for new bed facilities at the Hamilton Park nursing home in Balrothery, Balbriggan, on 3 October last when citizens, including a senior constituent who is a stroke patient and currently in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, have been arbitrarily deprived of much needed care and treatment at the Balrothery nursing home; and if the Minister will make a statement on this and other arbitrary health cuts by HSE senior management; (3) Deputy Alan Shatter — care management and long-term planning of children's services; (4) Deputy Joe Costello — the inclusion of the Bethany Home in the list of institutions covered by the Residential Institutions Redress Board; (5) Deputy Charles Flanagan — the report on the prison system here, published by European Committee for the Prevention of Torture; and (6) Deputy Tony Gregory — the application by the Ward Union Stag Hunt for a licence to hunt deer.
The matters raised by Deputies Finian McGrath, Alan Shatter, Joe Costello and Charles Flanagan have been selected for discussion.