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 Dáilunder Standing Order 31 to debate urgent business of local and national importance, namely, the ongoing dispute between management and parents at Drumcrave national school, outside Cavan town, where the majority of the 57 pupils no longer attend school. There is problem at this three teacher primary school for many years which has not been resolved and there is an urgent need for ministerial and departmental involvement to resolve the issue in the interest of the education of 57 children.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of major importance, namely, the failure of the Minister for Health and Children and the Western Health Board to adequately look after the welfare of Mayo patients where more than 1,000 people wait for up to eight years, on a list dating back to 1996, for essential urology services. An individual with prostate cancer has been waiting seven months for an appointment to see a consultant urologist who visits Mayo General Hospital from Galway once a month. Will the Minister agree that it is logical and essential to appoint a consultant urologist to Mayo General Hospital due to the vast distances patients must travel, almost equivalent to the distance from Dublin to Galway, and that this is not possible under the Hanly report? If the recommendations in the Hanly report are applied to the mid west and east coast areas, is it right that it not be possible to have a consultant urologist in Mayo?
Having considered the matters raised, I do not consider them to be in order under Standing Order 31.