Anois, iarratais chun tairisceana a dhéanamh an Dáil a chur ar athló faoi Bhuan-Ordú 32 — now we come to requests to move the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32.
Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of urgent national importance, namely, to force the Government to explain to this House why it thinks it is safe to remove essential hospital services, such as accident and emergency and the intensive care unit from Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, when there is no prospect of a regional hospital being constructed for at least 20 years; to explain why the people of Dundalk and its catchment communities are being denied these essential health services; the attendant risks they carry as a consequence of these savage cutbacks; and the need to deal urgently with the crisis in our health service.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of national importance requiring urgent consideration, namely, the threatened collapse of the general medical services scheme and related State schemes for the supply of medicines from 1 May if pharmacists implement their decision to withdraw from these schemes; the threatened legal action against pharmacists arising from this withdrawal; the role of the Minister for Health and Children and the HSE in escalating the dispute; and, above all, the threat to the health and safety of patients posed by this imminent collapse of schemes on which hundreds of thousands of people, many of them elderly, rely.
Tar éis breithnithe a dhéanamh ar na nithe ardaithe, níl siad in ord faoi Bhuan-Ordú 32.