Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31. I will call on the 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 discuss the following matter of urgent importance, namely, the decision by the Minister for Transport to sanction the exorbitant and counterproductive parking charges at the Luas park and ride sites which can only encourage illegal parking in residential estates and, more critically, discourage the use of public transport.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the emphatic rejection of the Government parties by the electorate in the local and European elections on Friday, 11 June, the shredding of any credibility the Government might have had in pushing through reactionary policies such as the break up of Aer Rianta and the privatisation of public services, the need to halt any further moves in this direction, the urgency to address critical issues in health and education and the need for this Government to resign.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of major importance, namely, the failure of the Minister for Health and Children and the Western Health Board to open the Mayo orthopaedic unit as planned on 1 July; the failure to open 63 beds lying idle upstairs in the hospital, including 33 orthopaedic unit beds, 28 elderly medicine beds and two palliative care beds, while older people needing hospital admission lie on trolleys in the accident and emergency department, an orthopaedic theatre lies idle since 2001 and while 1,500 people wait on a list dating back to 2000 for operations they will never have as there has not been an elective orthopaedic service since January for Mayo patients due to the recruitment ceiling imposed on the Western Health Board.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following specific and important matter of public interest requiring urgent consideration, namely, in view of the Irish activist on the seventh day of her hunger strike outside the offices of Cement Roadstone Holdings which through its subsidiaries is providing the cement used to build Israel's internationally rejected apartheid wall in Palestine and which is a blatant land grab and a further attempt to stifle and prevent the emergence of an independent and viable Palestinian state, the need for the Government to ensure that all Irish companies, including Cement Roadstone Holdings, act in a responsible manner and adhere to the international consensus in opposition to the wall and to ensure that no Irish company is party to or profits from these illegal, inhuman and morally repugnant actions by Israel against the Palestinian people.
Having considered the matters raised, I do not consider them to be in order under Standing Order 31.