Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters
Topical issues were submitted on roads, healthcare, education and childcare, housing and homelessness, water and wastewater, transport, farming, policing and community services. The selected matters for discussion concerned a proposed special school site in Belmayne, north Kildare water supplies, IPAS accommodation in rural hotels, ambulance capacity in Clare, autism and mental-health care, and rural road standards.
I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case:
Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss the need to bring the Ring of Kerry road up to an acceptable standard.
Deputy Máire Devine - To discuss the industrial action being undertaken by Irish nurses and their unions.
Deputy Alan Kelly - To discuss the need for a new taxi or hackney licence in rural Ireland.
Deputy Marie Sherlock - To discuss the exclusion of mainstream classes in Holy Child preschool on Seán MacDermott Street, Dublin 1, from special educational needs support.
Deputy Aidan Farrelly - To discuss issues relating to water supply in north Kildare.
Deputy Pearse Doherty - To discuss the future of Raphoe community playgroup, County Donegal.
Deputy Michael Murphy - To discuss the challenge of attracting young people and new entrants into farming.
Deputy Pádraig Rice - To discuss the redevelopment of Cork city library.
Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To discuss the provision of special education places in Cork.
Deputy Malcolm Byrne - To discuss the introduction of a youth culture card.
Deputy Séamus McGrath - To discuss driver licence reciprocal arrangements.
Deputy Ryan O'Meara - To discuss the continuation and expansion of the counselling in primary schools pilot, CPS-P.
Deputy Paul Lawless - To discuss the waste water treatment plant in Newport, County Mayo.
Deputy Cathy Bennett - To discuss the impact of inadequate service levels in Cavan and Monaghan hospitals.
Deputy Aindrias Moynihan - To discuss difficulties getting home support packages for people in Cork.
Deputy Joanna Byrne - To discuss dangerous and unsafe working conditions in the ambulance station in Drogheda.
Deputy Roderic O'Gorman - To discuss the need for modular accommodation for Danu Community Special School.
Deputy Catherine Connolly - To discuss the ongoing delays in the provision of an ambulance base at Recess, County Galway.
Deputies Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire and Thomas Gould - To discuss the current shortage of school places, particularly for children with additional needs.
Deputy Joe Cooney - To discuss the delivery of stand-alone, modular or temporary wastewater treatment systems for residential developments.
Deputies David Cullinane and Conor D McGuinness - To discuss funding requirements for the Waterford Airport extension.
Deputy Rory Hearne - To discuss the construction of new school buildings for Clonturk Community College, Whitehall, Dublin 9.
Deputy Gary Gannon - To discuss the lack of affordable childcare facilities in Dublin Central.
Deputy Colm Burke - To discuss the programme of works for the water supply system on the north side of Cork city.
Deputy Barry Ward - To discuss the ban on the use of mid-urethral mesh slings in treatment for urinary incontinence in women.
Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú· - To discuss the care of children with autism who also have mental health issues.
Deputy Cathal Crowe - To discuss the capacity of the national ambulance service in County Clare.
Deputy Pa Daly - To discuss the delay in the opening of the community hospital in Killarney.
Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - To discuss the need to review income limits for social and affordable housing.
Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - To discuss organised crime in Limerick city.
Deputy Jen Cummins - To discuss the importance of the school completion programme.
Deputy Brian Brennan - To discuss the Government's reaction plan to major international incidents such as the recent earthquake in Myanmar.
Deputy Donna McGettigan - To discuss the exclusion of various categories of persons from the official homeless figures.
Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin - To discuss the need to bring rural roads up to an acceptable standard.
Deputy Mattie McGrath - To discuss the use of rural hotels for IPAS accommodation.
Deputy Ruth Coppinger - To discuss the recent protest by Mothers against Genocide.
Deputies Naoise Ó Muirí, Cian O'Callaghan, Denise Mitchell, Barry Heneghan and Tom Brabazon - To discuss accommodating a new special school on the Belmayne Educate Together Secondary School site.
The matters raised by Deputies Naoise Ó Muirí, Cian O'Callaghan, Denise Mitchell, Barry Heneghan and Tom Brabazon; Aidan Farrelly; Mattie McGrath; Cathal Crowe; and Ruairí Ó Murchú have been selected for discussion.