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 Thomas Pringle - the need to develop a national wind energy policy recognising all stakeholders and the need to retain the value of the resource for the Irish people at local and national level; (2) Deputy Seán Crowe - the impact of upward-only rent reviews on businesses and jobs in town shopping centres, such as the Mill Centre, Clondalkin, and the need for landlords to adopt a more proactive approach to making commercial rents sustainable; (3) Deputy Jim Daly - the need to provide emergency funding to Cork County Council to deal with the crumbling road network in west Cork; (4) Deputy Tom Hayes - the need to provide additional classrooms at Knockavilla national school, Dundrum, County Tipperary; (5) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the need to make arrangements to meet the language skills gap for recently announced enterprise projects for Dundalk, County Louth; (6) Deputy Joe McHugh - competition, fairness and the fees which apply for public house sports entertainment television packages; (7) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the need to ensure the continuance of the State's only child and adolescent sexual assault treatment service; (8) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the introduction of measures to ensure the robustness of the system to endorse the licences of motorists who have incurred penalty points for driving offences; (9) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - the need to have science as a mandatory subject at junior certificate level; (10) Deputy Michael P. Kitt - the schools yellow flag programme on diversity and anti-racism; (11) Deputy Pat Deering - the need to extend the hedge cutting season; (12) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need to publish the scientific research, as well as responses by BIM to queries regarding the EIS, on the environmental impact of the proposed salmon fish farm in Galway Bay off the coast of Aran and to address all concerns; (13) Deputy John O'Mahony - the need to address the criminal legal aid system as currently in place; (14) Deputy Michael McNamara - the need to protect rural transport in any reorganisation of services; (15) Deputy Robert Troy - the need for the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to make a statement on the report card of the Children's Rights Alliance; (16) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the future of the rural transport programme; (17) Deputy Michael McGrath - in the context of the promissory note deal whether the Central Bank may be required by the European Central Bank to dispose of the Government bonds more quickly than set out in the agreed minimum disposal schedule; (18) Deputy Micheál Martin - the loss of 94 jobs at GSK in Cork; (19) Deputy Joan Collins - the matter of sitting local authority tenants being unable to insulate their homes either through Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government funding or access to grants for home insulation; (20) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need to retain a post office in the village of Duncormick, County Wexford; (21) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the reconfiguration of hospitals in the south east; (22) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the plight of the nursery and horticulture industry; and (23) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the issue of front-line workers opposing cuts to pay and core allowances.
The matters raised by Deputies Anthony Lawlor, Michael P. Kitt, Jim Daly and Joan Collins have been selected for discussion.