Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters
Selected Topical Issue Matters focused on job losses at Carlow College, staffing pressures in schools, illegal encampments, childcare shortages and council underfunding, with those six issues chosen for discussion.
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 Pat Buckley - To discuss the lack of school transport for children with intellectual disabilities at a school in Cork,
Deputy Tom Brabazon - To discuss the loss of staff at a school in Priorswood in the context of its new DEIS plus status.
Deputy Malcolm Byrne - To discuss the development of Bunclody Community College, County Wexford.
Deputy Albert Dolan - To discuss the pricing of train tickets between Athenry and Galway.
Deputy Eamon Scanlon - To discuss exceptional staffing pressures at a school in County Sligo.
Deputy Michael Murphy - To discuss the failure to recruit a consultant ophthalmologist in south Tipperary.
Deputy Shane Moynihan - To discuss delays in reimbursement under the cross-border healthcare directive.
Deputy Mark Wall - To discuss the ongoing illegal encampments in the Curragh, County Kildare.
Deputy Gary Gannon - To discuss data collection and sentencing guidelines relating to unprovoked one-punch fatal assaults.
Deputy Donna McGettigan - To discuss the potential loss of 87 jobs and the uncertainty facing 600 students at Carlow College.
Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To discuss the reimbursement of a drug (details supplied) and the implementation of the drug reimbursement system as committed to in the programme for Government,
Deputy Pa Daly - To discuss delivery of a new building for a school in County Kerry.
Deputy Colm Burke - To discuss actions to reduce the risk to children who require MRI scans under anaesthetic.
Deputy Rory Hearne - To discuss community safety and policing issues in Ballymun and Finglas in the context of the upcoming Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Deputy Roderic O'Gorman - To discuss health and safety concerns in a school in Chapelizod, Dublin 20.
Deputies David Cullinane and Conor D McGuinness - To discuss the severe childcare services deficit in County Waterford.
Deputies Louis O'Hara, Mairéad Farrell and Claire Kerrane - To discuss the underfunding of Galway County Council.
Deputies Darren O'Rourke and Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss the need for redress for survivor's of historical abuse at a school.
Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú - To discuss the planned industrial action at Oberstown.
The matters raised by Deputies Donna McGettigan, Eamon Scanlon, Mark Wall, Louis O'Hara, Mairéad Farrell and Claire Kerrane have been selected for discussion