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 Joan Burton - the need to screen all staff who may come into contact with children in the arts and culture sector; (2) Deputy James Browne - the need to discuss the shortage of respite places in County Wexford; (3) Deputy Pearse Doherty - the need to fully resource the disused maternity theatre at Letterkenny University Hospital; (4) Deputy Peter Burke - the need to review the commuter services on the Sligo to Dublin train route; (5) Deputy Michael McGrath - to discuss the concerns of commuters regarding Bus Éireann services in Cork city and county; (6) Deputy Eugene Murphy - to discuss the ambulance service in the west Roscommon area; (7) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the restrictions on HSE funding for home care packages; (8) Deputy Bobby Aylward - to discuss the HSE drug reimbursement scheme for the Vimizim drug; (9) Deputy Pat Buckley - to discuss the rent pressure zones and high rent levels in Cork East; (10) Deputy Jackie Cahill - to discuss the recent cuts in the community-based Tús programme; (11) Deputy John Lahart - the overcrowding on the Luas trams at rush hours; (12) Deputy Pat Deering - difficulties with the garda vetting process; (13) Deputy Gino Kenny - to discuss the withdrawal of lidocaine patches from the drugs payment scheme; (14) Deputy Sean Sherlock - to discuss wheelchair allocations waiting lists, in Cork, for adults and children; (15) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss Fingal County Council's role in applying the EU regulation 598/14 on noise reduction; (16) Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - delays with driving tests at Sarsfield Road, Cork; (17) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss the fact that moneys An Garda Síochána have paid to a company (details supplied) may be in breach of public procurement guidelines, as the principal contract with the company has not been advertised for tender since 2006; (18) Deputy Martin Heydon - the need for additional rail lines to serve Kildare commuters; (19) Deputy Robert Troy - to discuss the reports into the future of the rail network; (20) Deputy Catherine Connolly - the impact of the ongoing closure, with no timeline for replacement, of two orthopaedic theatres at Merlin Park hospital, Galway; (21) Deputy Róisín Shortall - the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the reason for the decisions by his Department to insist on half-stream intakes by certain multidenominational schools; and (22) Deputy Barry Cowen - the need for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to address the chronic underfunding of regional and local roads in County Offaly that has been ongoing for a number of years and which has been replicated in this year's grant allocation.
The matters raised by Deputies Joan Burton, Bobby Aylward, Pearse Doherty and Robert Troy have been selected for discussion.