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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 31 Mar 2004

Vol. 583 No. 1

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 will call the Deputies in the order in which they submitted notices to my office.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31——

A Cheann Comhairle, has the Government surrendered?

It is a matter for the Chair to decide whether to accept the Standing Order or not.

Or accept the Government's surrender? We will accept it now.

The de Valeras are back in possession.

There a few things that will come back then.

Dev ran the country on his own.

Bring back Dev.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the findings of the European Commission to impose binding measures on the UK operator, British Nuclear Fuels plc, which has failed to comply with the provisions of the EURATOM Treaty and the rules concerning accounting for nuclear material at Sellafield which is held in an area of such high level radiation and poor visibility that the situation has now become untenable and calls into question the credibility of safeguards designed to ensure that nuclear material is not diverted from peaceful uses.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: to ask the Taoiseach to intervene in the situation at Newtown Upper national school, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary where the teaching staff are being forced to take industrial action to highlight the need to replace the outdoor toilets which have been condemned by the Health and Safety Authority and the failure of the Minister for Education and Science to approve a grant of funding to replace these toilets, which are antiquated and dangerous and have more in common with the dark ages than the third millennium.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the failure of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to make funding available for the erection of kinetic energy absorbing barriers to safeguard all properties, farms and lands from future landslides at Inver and Pollathomas, County Mayo, as promised, after the landslides on 19 September 2003, despite assurances that these funds would be made available and to debate whether these funds can be made available by the Minister as a matter of the greatest possible urgency.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the clear division within the Government over the future of bus services in this country, the lack of any debate on the massive roads programme which is threatening our natural environment and our most important heritage sites, and the failure by the Government to deliver the promised Dublin metro by 2007, the three additional Luas sections promised by 2006, the fast and frequent commuter rail services from Dublin to Arklow, Carlow, Tullamore, Mullingar and Navan, the new commuter rail services for Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford, all of which were promised in the Progressive Democrats' 2002 election manifesto.

Who got the overall majority in the previous general election?

I cannot see any of these services being ready for 2006.

Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 31.

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