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, that the Minister for Education and Science address the current unacceptable situation regarding a lack of school buses running to Kilcredan national school in east Cork where, last week, school children with concessionary tickets were removed from overcrowded school buses with no replacement transport for them.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, in view of the fact that this is national pensions week, the need for the Government to stop foreign multinationals, who now own all but ten local newspapers, from undermining the existing defined benefit staff pension schemes and replacing them with defined contribution schemes, thereby denying staff a guaranteed pension outcome and significantly reducing their own employer contributions and to ask the Minister to make a statement on the matter.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the necessity for the Minister for Health and Children to take immediate action to end the ongoing crisis at the accident and emergency unit in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda where patients are crowded into every corridor and room available.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, to request the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources to present the major findings of the final Advantica report on the Corrib gas pipeline before the House and outline how he intends to move this project forward so the gas from the Corrib field will be urgently brought ashore in a safe and agreed manner; if he will indicate the stage the mediation process led by Mr. Peter Cassells is currently at and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 31.