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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 5 Mar 2003

Vol. 562 No. 5

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31.

Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31. I call on the Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss an issue of national importance: the urgent need for the Minister for Agriculture and Food to provide the necessary support to the livestock, pig and poultry industries to avoid total chaos due to his withdrawal of €45 million in subsidies towards the disposal of meat and bone meal before alternative structures were put in place. If this is passed on to the primary producers, many more will be forced out of business.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss the following important matter of public interest requiring urgent consideration, namely, the need for the Dáil to debate developments in the peace process, including the postponement of the Assembly elections in the Six Counties and the disappointing position adopted by the Irish Government in the phase of talks just concluded at Hillsborough.

I seek the adjournment of the House to discuss the design failure that appears to have given rise to the collapse of support beams and subsidence at the Dublin Port tunnel and to request that the review now being undertaken include independent experts not directly involved with any of the contracting parties so that the public can have full confidence in the outcome.

I request that the Minister for Transport give a full account to the House of the new subsidence and collapse of support beams during tunnelling under the DART and mainline rail lines as part of the works on the Dublin Port tunnel. I remind the House that this is the State's largest infastructural project currently under construction and therefore it is of the utmost importance that these issues are addressed and that minds are put at ease.

Having considered the matters raised, I do not consider them in order under Standing Order 31.

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