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 Brendan Smith - the need for greater urgency and better co-ordination by the international community of the humanitarian effort to tackle the Ebola crisis; (2) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the cost of road tax to Irish road hauliers; (3) Deputy Derek Nolan - the need for a new emergency department unit at University Hospital Galway; (4) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - an gá go dtabharfar cúnamh breise do na teaghlaigh a choinníonn Gaeilgeoirí faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimleoirí Gaeilge in 2015 de bharr an ualaigh a thitfidh orthu de bharr táillí uisce tí; (5) Deputy Róisín Shortall - the need to update regulations under the misuse of drugs legislation to curb the open street trading of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs; (6) Deputy Seamus Kirk - the issue of cattle rustling around the country; (7) Deputy Martin Ferris - the threatened discontinuation of the ferry linking Inis Mór on the Aran Islands to County Galway; (8) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the need to address the ongoing difficulties at Letterkenny General Hospital; (9) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the programme and targets in regard to the future strategic infrastructure required for Dublin City and Fingal County; (10) Deputy Sean Fleming - the funding of the school meals local project scheme in Scoil Bhríde, Portlaoise, Co. Laois; (11) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to suspend the back dating by three months of the €5 million value for money cut to disability services; (12) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd - the need to introduce legislation to enable HIQA legally investigate 355 individual complaints about the standards of care in nursing homes; (13) Deputy Brian Stanley - the need to support autism services in County Laois; (14) Deputy Pat Breen - the eligibility for qualification for a special rate third level grant to facilitate cohabiting couples; (15) Deputy Robert Troy - the lessons that need to be learned by State agencies following the death of an individual (details supplied); (16) Deputy Niall Collins - the communications with Northern Ireland counterparts on Sinn Féin-IRA cover up of sex abuse; (17) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the high cost of business for hauliers and its effect on the wider economy; (18) Deputy Joe Higgins - the use of black economy practices in State schools construction projects; (19) Deputy Mick Wallace - the UN Security Council resolution requiring countries to pass laws outlawing travel to join terrorist groups; (20) Deputy Clare Daly - the UN Security Council resolution requiring countries to pass laws outlawing travel to join terrorist groups; (21) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need for equal prominence to the Irish language on road signage; (22) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the investment plans for Malin Head; (23) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need for the Minister for Health to respond to the concerns raised today by the The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine with regard to Ebola; and (24) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the need to take the Turkish PKK party off the list of terrorist groups.
The matters raised by Deputies Brendan Smith, Fergus O'Dowd, Pearse Doherty and Derek Nolan have been selected for discussion.