Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31.
Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the report A Vision for Change on the future of mental health services in Ireland and its proposal to close and sell all remaining psychiatric hospitals and adjacent land attached to them; the proposal to dispose of St. Davnet's Hospital, Monaghan, and a wide variety of services in the county; the proposed replacement of current admission units by institutional-type 50-bed admission units to be restricted to one for each 300,000 of the population, which will have major consequences in rural Ireland for psychiatric admission units, its limitation of psychiatric day hospitals to one per 300,000 of the population, with all the difficulties it will create for psychiatric day patients in rural Ireland who generally have no form of personal or public transport available to them; to discuss the policy of selling State assets and pursuing a rental policy; and the report's implications for the future of mental health services in Cavan and Monaghan.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 on the following specific and important matter of public interest, namely, the urgent need to protect Dublin Bay by rejecting any proposals to infill 52 acres of the bay; to deal with traffic congestion, which is a great constraint on Dublin's growth as a port city; to divert port traffic from Dublin to satellite ports in the region and to ensure the prevention of further flooding in the Clontarf and Fairview areas.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate a matter of major local and national importance, namely, why Mayo patients must still wait for up to eight years for an urgent urology hospital appointment in Galway, and why an 80 year old man, who clinically has cancer of the prostate, has already been waiting for 16 months to see the consultant urologist in Galway for urgent treatment; why has the situation to continue when a solution is a urology unit in Mayo General Hospital and why should it be tolerated that people without health insurance, waiting for urgent urology treatment, will more than likely have a shorter lifespan due to the negligence of the Government to deal with the health services, which is a disgrace.
I request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to address an urgent matter, namely, the wasteful use of public assets by the Government, for example, the lack of any cost-benefit analysis being required by the Government before allowing the Dublin Airport Authority to proceed with sacrificing public land worth €840 million for a new runway which, if built, will add further to the imbalance in regional development, choking Dublin further and starving the rest of Ireland.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 on an important and specific matter of public interest requiring urgent consideration, namely, the announcement that the closest nuclear power station to Dublin, the Wylfa nuclear reactor, may be kept open for a further five years beyond its original design life.
I call Deputy Boyle.
This is a matter of huge concern. Deputy Sargent and I visited the plant during the summer.
The matter cannot be debated now.
(Interruptions).
There cannot be a discussion. The Deputy has the right to read the matter.
This is an important issue. It is not situated in middle England; it is located in Hollyhead, which is just 60 miles away. There should be a debate on the matter.
We cannot break the rules. I call Deputy Boyle.
I request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of public importance, namely, that the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment make a statement in the House on the decision of the CIMS company to relocate its business from Cork to the UK with a loss of 84 jobs and the implications the decision may have for other call centre companies in the region.
Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 31.