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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 31 May 2000

Vol. 520 No. 2

Adjournment Debate Matters.

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Perry – the need to appoint a teacher to Achonry national school, County Sligo, due to the increase in the numbers in the school catchment area; (2) Deputy Durkan – the reply of the Minister for Health and Children to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 10 May 2000 regarding the application of the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations, 1994; (3) Deputy Jim O'Keeffe – the question of decentralisation of Government offices to Bandon and other west Cork towns; (4) Deputy Sheehan – the uncertain situation appertaining to the provision of surgical services at Bantry county hospital; (5) Deputy Gilmore – the circumstances in which crops grown from seed contaminated by genetically modified organisms were apparently planted in this country; (6) Deputy Clune – the way in which quantities of genetically modified contaminated crops were planted in this country; (7) Deputy Bradford – the need for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development to initiate and pursue policies which will encourage young people to take up a career in farming; (8) Deputy Neville – the need for the inspector of mental health hospitals to investigate the placement of children in psychiatric hospitals because there are not any suitable places available in residential centres for children; (9) Deputy Gormley – the planting of oilseed rape contaminated by a genetically modified variety; (10) Deputy Crawford – the need to ensure that the teacher numbers will be retained at St. Daig's national school, Inniskeen and Scoil Chlochar Na Trocaire, Castleblayney and Scoil Naomh, Corracrin, Emmyvale, County Monaghan all of whom have been notified of the loss of a teacher due to a deficit of one pupil last September; (11) Deputy McGinley – the urgent need to provide the necessary funding to the Donegal hospice building project; (12) Deputy Breeda Moynihan-Cronin – the progress made on the implementation of the recommendations of the Moran report on orthodontic services; (13) Deputy Ó Caoláin – the need for the Minister for Health and Children to intervene with urgency to ensure the provision of the promised review for promoted grades of psychiatric nurses in October 2000 with moneys to flow in 2001, in order to avert the imminent strike by the Psychiatric Nurses Association; (14) Deputy Shatter – the reply received to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 281 and 282 of 23 May last.

The matters raised by Deputies Gilmore, Clune, Jim O'Keeffe and McGinley have been selected for discussion.

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