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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 26 Jun 2014

Vol. 845 No. 3

Topical Issue Matters

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 Gerald Nash - the number and variety of training courses offered by SOLAS in Drogheda; (2) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the need to maintain the shuttle bus service at Glenveagh National Park, County Donegal; (3) Deputy Shane Ross - the pupil-teacher ratio in fee-charging schools; (4) Deputy Helen McEntee - to ask the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government if a special provision could be made for a separated person who has applied for social housing and for whom legal separation is not a feasible option, either for the person in question or the other party, to the effect that while the applicants are waiting for free legal aid, they could remain in receipt of a rent allowance payment; (5) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need for Irish Water to ensure water meters are fully accessible to those with disabilities; (6) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to resolve the causes of the strike action at Roadstone Wood; (7) Deputy Frank Feighan - the need to address concerns relating to pupil numbers and staffing levels at Drumboylan national school, County Roscommon; (8) Deputy Seán Crowe - the delays wheelchair users are facing when getting wheelchairs repaired; (9) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need to commence immediately insulin pump treatment for young persons with diabetes over the age of five years in the HSE west region; (10) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - the need for urgent funding to be secured for works to commence on the Osberstown interchange, the Sallins bypass and the upgrading of the M7 from two to three lanes from the Naas area to the M9 exit as soon as permission is granted by An Bord Pleanála to assist in the development of the Kerry Group research facility at Millennium Park, Naas; (11) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - the need to discuss a renewed approach to tackling drug use, specifically the decriminalisation of personal use in particular cases, and to follow through on international examples of good practice in this area; (12) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - the need for credit unions to engage with small and medium-sized enterprises; (13) Deputy Regina Doherty - to raise the matter of a four-teacher school in Meath East, roll No. 17312M, which has lost a teacher, despite an appeal and although the roll numbers are rising and expected to rise for the years 2015-16 and 2016-17; furthermore, according to the number of children in the area on the parochial baptismal register, it is expected that the school will have an average class size in excess of the general average of 28:1 and although it is not in the failing-to-gain category, it is losing a teacher and will have a high average class size for one year, a scenario the appeal process was designed to avert; (14) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell - to ask the Minister for Health to extend BreastCheck to women aged between 65 and 69 years as set out in the programme for Government; (15) Deputy Martin Heydon - the need to retain three teachers at Scoil Naomh Lorcáin, Levitstown, Maganey, Athy, County Kildare; (16) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to review the operation of the acute psychiatric unit at University Hospital Galway following the recent internal audit; (17) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the effects of the wind-down of the regeneration of Ballymun, in particular, the need to maintain important local services and employment; (18) Deputy David Stanton - to ask the Minister for Education and Skills to debate the urgent need to begin construction on a premises for the amalgamation of two primary schools in Carrigtwohill, County Cork, roll Nos. 17103E and 18000W, both of which are at their limit with respect to accommodation, and, furthermore, the urgent need to commence the provision of a new second level school in Carrigtwohill, County Cork which is also due to be progressed in 2014-15 in the Department's five year building plan; and (19) Deputy Jonathan O'Brien - to discuss the urgent matter of an industrial dispute between trade unions and the Department of Education and Skills regarding the schools building programme.

The matters raised by Deputies Frank Feighan, Shane Ross, Eamonn Maloney and Denis Naughten have been selected for discussion.

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