Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31. I will call on Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.
Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the neglect of citizens with intellectual disability and the failure of the Government to form a national strategy to deal with this neglect or to provide adequate funding to provide urgent and necessary services for the intellectually disabled; the failure of the Government to publish rights-based legislation as promised; the fact that 450 people with intellectual disabilities are in inappropriate institutions built in a bygone era to provide care for the mentally ill; and that more than 3,000 people are on waiting lists for respite and residential care and therapeutic services.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent national importance, namely, the daily revelations about the murder of civilians and the torture and degrading treatment of prisoners by occupation forces in Iraq, and the need for the Government to end immediately its shameful collaboration with the US and British war on the people of that country and to deny the use of Irish airports to the military forces of the occupying powers.
I seek leave to move a motion for the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 for the following specific and important matter requiring urgent consideration, namely, the need to allow Deputies to make their opinions known on the occasion of today's visit to Ireland of the Chinese Premier; the need for China to open unconditional negotiations with the Tibetan Government in exile; the need to express our deep concern that China's human rights record has deteriorated rather than improved, particularly in respect of Tibet; the need to allow us to call for the immediate release of Tibetan political prisoners, including Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and the Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima; and the need to allow us to express our support for Tibetan self-determination.
Having considered the matters raised, I have decided that they are not in order under Standing Order 31.