Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters
Topical issues covered health services, education, transport, planning and community rights, with priority given to matters on hospital care, school accommodation, supports for children, seaweed rights, planning procedures, BusConnects and drug reimbursement.
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 Martin Daly - To discuss plastic and reconstructive surgery services in Roscommon University Hospital.
Deputy Erin McGreehan - To discuss longer opening hours of the X-ray department at weekends in the minor injury clinic in Louth County Hospital.
Deputy Colm Burke - To discuss actions to reduce the risk to children who require MRI scans under anaesthetic.
Deputy Seán Kyne - To discuss the protection of historical and generational rights to seaweed on the west coast.
Deputies Gary Gannon, Daniel Ennis - To discuss the procedures governing planning application decisions in Dublin 7.
Deputy Sorca Clarke - To discuss staffing allocation at a Gaelscoil in Mullingar.
Deputy Michael Murphy - To discuss the decline in Garda roads policing unit numbers.
Deputy Thomas Gould - To discuss the number of schools in Cork currently at stage 2A for a prolonged period of time who desperately need new accommodation
Deputy Danny Healy-Rae - To discuss plans to review the current age limits for school bus drivers.
Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss the failure to provide necessary supports for children with additional needs in the summer programme.
Deputy Malcolm Byrne - To discuss the development of Bunclody Community College, County Wexford.
Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To discuss the reimbursement of a drug and implementation of the drug reimbursement system.
Deputy Albert Dolan - To discuss the introduction of a farm succession scheme.
Deputy Séamus McGrath - To discuss the building project proposed for the amalgamation of Shanbally and Ringaskiddy National Schools, County Cork.
Deputy Louis O'Hara - To discuss supports for households affected by the ending of the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme.
Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - To discuss funding for the roll-out of Bus Connects in Limerick city.
The matters raised by Deputies Erin McGreehan, Martin Daly, Gary Gannon and Daniel Ennis, Seán Kyne, Colm Burke, Maurice Quinlivan, Pádraig O'Sullivan, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, Séamus McGrath and Thomas Gould have been selected for discussion.