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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 28 Mar 2006

Vol. 617 No. 1

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 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 raise a matter of national importance: the need for the Minister for Education and Science to waive the State's right to costs in the case of Louise O'Keeffe who was sexually abused while in national school. In view of the importance of the matter, I ask the Ceann Comhairle to allow it.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss an issue of urgent national importance: to call on the Taoiseach to ensure the National Roads Authority re-prioritises the following roads in County Mayo for immediate investment in light of the underspend in allocated BMW funding for national roads — N26, Ballina-Bohola; N5, Castlebar-Westport; N60, Castlebar-Claremorris; and the Ballinrobe town by-pass.

I suggest the Government put up a candidate in Castlebar.

(Interruptions).

Allow Deputy Connolly without interruption.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance: the forthcoming Independence sale of over 400 lots of historic artefacts and documents associated with the 1916 Easter Rising scheduled to coincide with the 90th anniversary commemoration of the Rising; the possibility that such unique, irreplaceable and priceless historical treasures such as the original words of Amhrán na bhFiann, the 1916 Proclamation, the original Tricolour that flew over the GPO during the Rising, letters and poetry from Patrick Pearse, the typewriter that was used by Michael Collins and final letters from the executed leaders to their loved ones — all part of our national heritage — could be lost to the nation; and calls on the Government in adherence to the memory and ideals of the men and women of 1916 to take whatever initiative is necessary to rescue a significant part of Ireland's documentary heritage from private hands.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance: the crisis situation which exists in Ballina, County Mayo where the unemployment rate is twice the national average at 11% and which is directly due to the infrastructure deficit, as proven by the €3.9 billion underspend in the BMW region.

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

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