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 Frank Feighan - the need to discuss issues relating to turf cutting, including the number of those who received compensation under the turf cutting cessation scheme to date and bog locations achieved and progress to date; (2) Deputy Bernard J. Durkan - the need to address the stalled works at the town centre development in Naas, County Kildare; (3) Deputy Seamus Healy - the need to advertise the GP practice for Bansha, County Tipperary with a rural practice allowance; (4) Deputy Pat Breen - the need to address the provision of waste water services to rural areas and the need for a pilot programme to include Carrigaholt, County Clare; (5) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - the need to discuss plans to introduce a State-wide ban on smoky coal, including engagement with counterparts north of the Border; (6) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need to protect farmers by addressing the increased price deferential between Irish beef and British beef in British supermarkets and the steps taken to address the matter; (7) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the need to address the recent spate of killings of human right defenders by Colombian paramilitaries with the alleged complicity of the Colombian army; (8) Deputy Seán Kyne - the need to consider the deficit of the Brothers of Charity Services in Galway which has effectively arisen from the implementation of a HSE reduction in funding in 2010; (9) Deputy Sean Fleming - the need to address the exclusion of local authority social housing units provided under Part V of the new tenant purchase scheme; (10) Deputy Denis Naughten - the need to convene a meeting between departmental officials, the Garda National Immigration Bureau and civil registrars to resolve the current legal blockage to marriages involving a third country national, which is denying Irish citizens their constitutional right to get married; (11) Deputy Clare Daly - the need to address the deteriorating health of Ibrahim Halawa, who is currently on hunger strike in prison in Egypt, and the need for the Government to urgently intervene on his behalf; (12) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need to publish the recommendations of the HSE national ambulance review; (13) Deputy Eamonn Maloney - concerns regarding the pending industrial action on 15 December 2015 by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in hospital accident and emergency departments; (14) Deputy Arthur Spring - the need to address the delay for persons in the south-west region referred to ophthalmologists in Cork University Hospital and the South Infirmary in Cork, who have been placed on the routine outpatient waiting list, which is currently two years, for procedures such as cataract operations; (15) Deputy Timmy Dooley - the need to discuss the decision of the National Transport Authority to allow public transport companies to increase their fares in December 2015 and from January 2016; (16) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the need to provide an update on Bord Fáilte's development of tourism facilities at Malin Head in County Donegal and the level of progress that has been made on phase two of its plans for overall tourism development; and (17) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the need to address the crisis in the allocation of the rural practice allowance for GPs.
The matters raised by Deputies Bernard J. Durkan, Arthur Spring, Pat Breen and Charlie McConalogue have been selected for discussion.