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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 20 Oct 2004

Vol. 590 No. 5

Adjournment Debate Matters.

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Ring — the need for the Minister to provide funding for a project in County Mayo considering the facility has planning approval; (2) Deputy Carey — the need to urgently address and clarify the practice by which some chiropodists in the past two years have charged elderly public patients a top-up fee of up to €15; (3) Deputy Crowe — the need for a debate on the recent report on children in Tallaght west and the failure of the State and its agencies to respond sufficiently in a co-ordinated manner to the poverty and social inequities highlighted in the report; (4) Deputy Ferris — the need to discuss the alarming statistics on suicide in the 15 to 24 age group and the role social deprivation and marginalisation play in this problem; (5) Deputy Costello — the need for the Minister to provide paid legal representation for a family (details supplied) at the Morris tribunal; (6) Deputy Healy — the need to commence the Clonmel flood alleviation scheme as announced by Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, earlier this year; (7) Deputy Breeda Moynihan-Cronin — the need to discuss the delay in the provision of funding for the new hospital in Dingle, County Kerry; (8) Deputy Gregory — the need to discuss the crisis in the accident and emergency department in the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7; (9) Deputy Broughan — the need to ensure that An Post pensioners are paid their due pension increases under the national pay agreement; (10) Deputy Mulcahy — the need for the Minister to make funding available for new windows at Our Lady of Good Counsel primary schools, Mourne Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12, comprising an infant school, a boys' senior school and a girls' senior school of 620 pupils, given that the windows in these schools at which the original windows were inserted in 1943 are in an extremely dilapidated and dangerous condition and need urgent replacing; (11) Deputies Pat Breen and James Breen — the need for the Minister to explain the reason a CT scan has not been installed in Ennis General Hospital when the funding has been provided for same, and if she will instruct the Mid-Western Health Board to install same in the interest of patients' safety; (12) Deputy Eamon Ryan — the need for the Minister to outline the maximum level of central Government funding available for the rebuilding of a swimming pool (details supplied) which closed on 15 July last; (13) Deputy Hogan — the need to carry out an independent investigation in respect of the competence of training and assessment associated with the FÁS sponsored construction skills programmes certified by FETAC; (14) Deputy O'Dowd — the need to discuss issues arising in relation to electronic voting and recent public announcements on possible alterations to technology purchased by the State for this purpose; (15) Deputy Durkan — the need to debate recent indications that registration of all mobile phones is not fully effective resulting in a possible greater use of mobile phones in the transmission of pornographic images; and whether the Minister has been in contact with or received communication from ComReg with a view to reassuring the public on this issue; (16) Deputy Cuffe — the need for the Government to ensure it meets its obligations under the Kyoto Agreement in light of a new report on climate change entitled Up In Smoke published yesterday in the United Kingdom, which states that industrialised nations should cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 80% by 2050; (17) Deputy Howlin — the need to debate the policy of the Government and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in deporting families with Irish born children who have established long-term residence and deep ties; and (18) Deputy Morgan — the need for the Minister to address the widespread concern regarding his statement that he intends to implement the recommendations of the Constituency Commission, as published in January 2004, to increase the number of three-seat constituencies and, in particular, to divide County Leitrim between the two proposed new constituencies of Sligo-North Leitrim and Roscommon-South Leitrim, despite the fact that larger constituency size adds the quality of extra proportionality to the electoral system as a whole and that section 6(2)(c) of the Electoral Act 1997 states that “the breaching of county boundaries shall be avoided as far as practicable”.

The matters raised by Deputies Carey, Broughan, Hogan and Morgan have been selected for discussion.

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