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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 9 Mar 2006

Vol. 616 No. 3

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31.

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.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the continuing crisis in Letterkenny General Hospital that has led to chaotic conditions throughout the hospital with patients on trolleys being a daily feature, the daily cancellations of outpatient clinics and elective surgery leading to the endangering of the well-being of both patients and staff and the urgent need for immediate action to alleviate the crisis by the sanctioning of the required 70 beds for the hospital to meet the medical needs of more than 130,000 people living in County Donegal.

And every other hospital in the country.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Minister for Transport to explain to the House his unwillingness to meet Cork city and county Members of the Oireachtas on the future of Cork Airport, especially since his avoidance is being accompanied by threats to the airport in maintaining its current level of services.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the reason the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the refugee immigration agency treat asylum seekers and the citizens of Kiltimagh so badly, with inadequate provisions for young asylum-seeking males who deserve proper facilities and the people of Kiltimagh who have been badly let down by the State.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the rapidly deteriorating situation at Cork Airport where Ryanair has withdrawn some of its services because of increased charges arising from the fact that the Government has not delivered on the written promise given by the former Minister for Transport, Deputy Brennan, that Cork Airport Authority would not incur a debt because of the construction of a new terminal at Cork Airport.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the failure of the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to ensure proper contracts and decent pay for people working in the home help service who provide vital care for elderly people, allowing them to live with dignity in their homes and helping to reduce the pressure on hospitals and nursing homes; the need for the Tánaiste to immediately reverse the reduction in home help hours and to ensure that her Department meets its legal obligations to home help workers and to all those who require their service.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: to hear the case for a patient charter and additional resources for Beaumont Hospital to end the appalling overcrowding which last Monday resulted in a lady with a serious case of pneumonia being left on a hard plastic chair from 12.30 p.m. to 10.30 am., ten hours later, before being told the hospital had no space, even though she needed hospital care, and to have the Minister for Health and Children address this issue as a matter of urgency.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the record number of people now on trolleys, giving rise to what the IMO calls our worst ever accident and emergency crisis, due in part to the winter vomiting bug, and the need now for the Tánaiste to make a statement to this House about the setting up of a new unit in the HSE to deal with the accident and emergency crisis, how she intends to implement the ten-point plan and if she will finally recognise that the real problem here is the lack of capacity in terms of acute beds and beds in the community.

Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 31.

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