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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 16 Jul 2014

Vol. 848 No. 4

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) Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Clare Daly and Mick Wallace - the conflict in Gaza; (2) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the diplomatic initiatives to facilitate a resolution of the case involving the murders of Private Derek Smallhorne and Private Thomas Barrett in the Lebanon; (3) Deputy Michael McNamara - the State should buy the home of Edna O'Brien; (4) Deputy Sean Fleming - the need for funding for the school meals local projects scheme for Scoil Bhríde, Portlaoise, County Laois; (5) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need to provide direct funding to various voluntary groups such as Muintir na Tíre, Traveller groups and the National Collective of Community-Based Women's Networks; (6) Deputy Paul J. Connaughton - the provisions that are being put in place to provide solutions for horse owners who do not have proper documentation for their animals and who are unable to dispose of them; (7) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need to provide funding for flood damage repairs in County Clare; (8) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need to address the current valuation process leading to the calculation of commercial rates in Limerick city and county; (9) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the wrong done to the women victims of symphysiotomy, the need for full acknowledgement and an apology, and the right of the survivors to be heard and to be appropriately compensated; (10) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to immediately intervene in a dispute between Bord Bia, farmers and processors regarding the operation of the beef assurance scheme which could undermine the country's marketing strategy for Ireland's multi-million euro beef exports; (11) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - to discuss badger culling in light of Russia banning Irish beef due to suspected bovine TB; (12) Deputy Joan Collins - to raise the fact that on 11 July the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, NAI, posted on its site that 11 neurological charities, including the NAI, had received news that their funding applications had been turned down; (13) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the shortage of social housing provision; (14) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need for the Minister to report on the progress of the Claregalway drainage scheme and flood relief measures as we approach the autumn and winter; (15) Deputy Jim Daly - the need to review the traffic flow arrangements at Owenahincha junction on the N71 at Rosscarbery, County Cork; (16) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - a ban on settler product from the West Bank coming into the EU; (17) Deputy Helen McEntee - the manner in which primary schools are allocated their teachers; (18) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the need to maintain a motor tax office in the Ballymun area; (19) Deputy Ruth Coppinger - the United Nations Human Rights Committee meeting in Geneva yesterday, which dealt with human rights in Ireland and was attended by the Minister for Justice and Equality, at which a number of important issues were raised, in particular relating to women's health, regarding termination of pregnancy and symphysiotomy, and prisoners' rights; (20) Deputy Brendan Ryan - the need to protect the school completion programme from any further reduction in funding; and (21) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the State's failure to uphold the human rights of children in terms of the severe shortage of inpatient child mental health facilities.

The matters raised by Deputies Helen McEntee, Brendan Ryan, Jim Daly and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Clare Daly, and Mick Wallace have been selected for discussion.

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