Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters
Dail Éireann — 2025-09-24
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Aidan Farrelly (CC), Kildare North

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 Pádraig O'Sullivan - To discuss the delays businesses and potential employees experience while applying for work permits.
Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - To discuss issues with public transport in Wicklow.
Deputy Frankie Feighan - To discuss wheelchair accessible transport for cancer patients based in the north west.
Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss the national planning framework and the sustainable rural housing guidelines.
Deputy John Connolly - To discuss the proposal by Inland Fisheries Ireland to close the Cong salmon hatchery at Lough Corrib.
Deputy Robert O'Donoghue - To discuss waiting lists for speech and language therapy in CHO 9.
Deputy Barry Ward - To discuss the expansion of access to Irish-language medium primary and secondary schools.
Deputy Pat Buckley - To discuss the closure of the local training initiative in Youghal, County Cork.
Deputy Sinéad Gibney - To discuss funding challenges for LauraLynn and the lack of children's palliative care nationally.
Deputy Darren O'Rourke - To discuss the new guidelines for SNA reviews 2025-26.
Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - To discuss capacity issues at University Hospital Limerick.
Deputy Gary Gannon - To discuss the need for outdoor sports facilities in Dublin 1.
Deputy Cathy Bennett - To discuss the rising cost of third level education.
Deputy Pa Daly - To discuss the reopening of Rattoo round tower.
Deputies Louis O'Hara and Claire Kerrane - To discuss maternity services at Portiuncula University Hospital.
Deputy Eoghan Kenny - To discuss recent fish kill on the Blackwater river in County Cork.
Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss the issues in Mahon, Cork, regarding the sewerage system.
Deputy Danny Healy-Rae - To discuss the promised restoration of the 9% VAT rate, along with the need for targeted supports for rural pubs and the proposal by the VFI for a 40% reduction of excise duty on draft products for rural pubs.
The matters raised by Deputies Frankie Feighan, Pádraig O'Sullivan, Eoghan Kenny and Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire have been selected for discussion.

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Sitting date: 2025-09-24