I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the need for additional funding at Letterkenny University Hospital; (2) Deputies Sean Fleming and Brian Stanley - the future of the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise; (3) Deputy Danny Healy-Rae - the lack of nursing support for sufferers of Parkinson's disease in Kerry; (4) Deputy Bobby Aylward - the need to address overnight ambulance resources in Kilkenny; (5) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd - to discuss protocols and guidelines for employers and employees in the event of status red weather warnings; (6) Deputy John Lahart - to discuss access to services for homeless people in Dublin; (7) Deputies Niamh Smyth and Carol Nolan - the need to address rural crime; (8) Deputy Willie O'Dea - to discuss the defined benefit pension scheme in CIÉ; (9) Deputy Brendan Smith - to discuss the ongoing human rights violations in Myanmar; (10) Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy - the need for investment in the N62 route in County Offaly; (11) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the recent decision on the Celbridge local area plan; (12) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - to discuss distribution of Garda resources throughout the State; (13) Deputy Frank O'Rourke - the need to review the housing assistance payment limits in north Kildare; (14) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss the need for legislative reform regarding existing pensioner benefits in cases of scheme wind-ups where at present the purchase of expensive annuities is presented as the only option; (15) Deputy Anne Rabbitte - the need for the Minister for Health to outline when patients who have had operations cancelled owing to building works in Merlin Park University Hospital will receive their treatment; (16) Deputy Pat Buckley - to discuss the need to construct a slip road-feeder lane from the R630 from Whitegate oil refinery to the N25 Cork to Waterford road at Lakeview roundabout; (17) Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin - the reinstatement of the Coughlanstown Road, Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare; (18) Deputy Martin Ferris - full-time residential care for adults with physical and intellectual disabilities; (19) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the costs associated with primary school teacher placements in the Gaeltacht; (20) Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett, Joan Collins, Mick Wallace - the recent report on spiralling rent and house prices; today's report by Daft.ie on soaring rents and rental properties; the ESRI report which states house prices will rise by 20% in the next three years; and the Government's response to same; (21) Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly - domestic preparations for the potential collapse of Brexit talks; (22) Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - to discuss the need for a light rail service for Cork city; (23) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the National Treatment Purchase Fund audit of hospital waiting lists; (24) Deputy Ruth Coppinger - the comparative level of homelessness in Ireland; and (25) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss loading of car insurance policies for the elderly.
The matters raised by Deputies McConalogue, Coppinger, Corcoran Kennedy, and Smyth and Nolan have been selected for discussion.