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 Dessie Ellis — the need to clarify the position of metro north; (2) Deputy Patrick Nulty — the closure of beds at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown; (3) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae — the need to extend the period for spreading slurry; (4) Deputy Ray Butler — the need for local authorities to prepare plans for rural and urban road networks in severe weather conditions; (5) Deputy Mattie McGrath — the need to re-organise the Valuation Office to ensure that property re-valuation is carried out by other than those who set the initial valuations; (6) Deputy Terence Flanagan — the provision of emergency funds to Dublin City Council to ensure that the remedial works needed at the Priory Hall apartment complex, Dublin, take place straight away; (7) Deputy Noel Harrington — the safety and transport issues involving the pier at the North Harbour, Cape Clear Island, County Cork; (8) Deputy James Bannon — the need to designate Longford as a sub-office of the newly amalgamated Longford-Westmeath VEC; (9) Deputy Brian Stanley — the need for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to co-operate closely with Dublin City Council in addressing the crisis at Priory Hall, Donaghmede, Dublin, including providing resources to enable the council to comply with the order of the High Court to meet the accommodation needs of the evacuated residents, ensuring that mortgage holders are not required by financial institutions to pay mortgages on properties that cannot be lived in and working with all concerned to address this crisis in a planned and comprehensive manner; (10) Deputy Catherine Murphy — the need to address the problems of customers of unguaranteed credit institutions; (11) Deputy Timmy Dooley — the need to retain a designated adult CF physiotherapist at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick; (12) Deputy Denis Naughten — the need for the Minister for Health to reinstate chemotherapy and warfarin clinics at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe; (13) Deputy Seán Crowe — in view of the Red Cross appeal for donations to support Irish flood victims, the need for the Minister to confirm that support will also be forthcoming from central government to help the many people whose homes and property were damaged recently in the period of heavy rain that fell in Dublin and parts of the east coast on 24 and 25 October; (14) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív — an gá atá ann go gcuirfear freagra dearfach ar fáil don iarratas atá déanta chuig an Roinn Comhshaoil, Pobail agus Rialtas Áitiúil le cead a fháil cuid de na haonaid tithíochta sóisialta ag Áras Rónáin, Cill Rónáin, Árann a athrú ó thithe sóisialta go haonad cúram príomhúil faoi chúram an HSE agus nach n-iarrfaí aon aisíoc ar an deontas a tugadh don ionad ó tharla go mbeidh sé in úsáid ag an HSE (áisíneacht Stáit) don phobal; (15) Deputy Michael P. Kitt — the financing and feasibility of various transport alternatives in Galway city and county; (16) Deputy Paudie Coffey — the need to make provision for the building of a 50 bed unit following the closure of St. Bridget's ward at St. Patrick's Hospital, Waterford; (17) Deputy Jim Daly — the need to introduce legislation to force banks to pass on ECB interest rate cuts; (18) Deputy Pearse Doherty — the need to introduce legislation to force banks to pass on ECB interest rate cuts; (19) Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor — the sale of Booterstown Marsh, County Dublin, as advertised on the NAMA website; (20) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin — the initiation of legislation dealing with a proposed levy on online gambling in the context of sports funding; (21) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn — the capture, continued detention and alleged abuse of 14 Irish citizens by the Israeli authorities; (22) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett — the capture, continued detention and alleged abuse of 14 Irish citizens by the Israeli authorities; (23) Deputy Joe Costello — the provision of funding for Grangegorman Development Agency; and (24) Deputy Mick Wallace — the need to lift the moratorium on the recruitment of midwives to Wexford General Hospital.
The matters raised by Deputies Ray Butler, Michael P. Kitt, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Catherine Murphy have been selected for discussion.