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 Michael McCarthy - the future of Cork Airport; (2) Deputy James Bannon - the need to recruit additional nursing staff in the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar; (3) Deputy Ciarán Cannon - the need to ensure that the allocation system for local area, rural hackney licences is operating as originally intended; (4) Deputy Noel Harrington - the need for a compensation fund under the European Fisheries Fund for the mussel fishermen of west Cork and Kerry; (5) Deputies Éamon Ó Cuív and Aengus Ó Snodaigh - the concern at the roll-out of the new social inclusion and community activation programme; (6) Deputy Brian Stanley - hospice services in the midlands; (7) Deputy Brian Walsh - the need to reconsider route proposals for the N6 Galway city transport project; (8) Deputy Michael Moynihan - the fines imposed on farmers for being over quota and the discussions held with milk processors; (9) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need for a cap to be placed on rental prices in Dublin; (10) Deputy Michael McNamara - coastal defence studies; (11) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the impact on rural medical practices where the rural practice allowance has been removed; (12) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need for a permanent extension at Scoil Mhuire, Moycullen, County Galway; (13) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the investigation into alleged fraudulent activity in the Tipperary hostel project; (14) Deputy Martin Heydon - the implications of the loss of Newbridge Credit Union, locally and nationally; (15) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the crisis in Letterkenny General Hospital; (16) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to implement the HIQA recommendation on ambulance by-pass protocols; (17) Deputies Clare Daly and Mick Wallace - the impact of the ending of the Mare Nostrum coastguard rescue off the coast of Italy and the need for EU involvement; (18) Deputy Niall Collins - the need to address the rise in gun crime here; (19) Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl - the preparedness of the Air Corps to deal with incursions into airspace here by unauthorised craft; (20) Deputy Dara Calleary - the future of the fair deal scheme; (21) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - the need to address the instability of the rental sector; (22) Deputy Joan Collins - the need to address the homelessness crisis, both nationally and in Dublin; (23) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the HSE service plan target to reduce the number of young people with mental health problems admitted to adult psychiatric units; (24) Deputy Brendan Smith - developments in the Ukraine and the EU's engagement on the matter; and (25) Deputy Helen McEntee - the need for funding a nationwide scheme for children with special needs to the early childhood care and education scheme.
The matters raised by Deputies Ciarán Cannon, Michael McNamara, Éamon Ó Cuív and Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Clare Daly and Mick Wallace have been selected for discussion.