Anois, iarratas chun tairisceana a dhéanamh an Dáil a chur ar athló faoi Bhuan Ordú 32. We will now deal with 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 a matter of specific and important public interest requiring urgent attention, namely, the need for the Minister for Health and Children to request the Health Information and Quality Authority to carry out a full inquiry into the circumstances of the deaths of Ann Moriarty and Edel Kelly and allegations that there was a failure to diagnose breast cancer particularly in view of the fact that early diagnosis and treatment could have saved the lives of the two women concerned. Given the importance of this matter I hope the Ceann Comhairle will agree to my request.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss a matter of urgent importance, namely, the failure of the Minister for Education and Science to provide, as promised at two elections, the urgently required permanent Holy Trinity school in Leopardstown, mindful of the fact that more than €1 million has been already spent on prefabs, that the school has run out of space for further prefabs without encroaching on the building site, and that the school has been deprived of priority Band 1 status despite its entitlement to same as a rapidly expanding area resulting in the unforgivable situation whereby the school is unable to cater for the thousands of children baptised in this area in recent years and now awaiting school places.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss a matter of extreme importance, namely, the recent reports of cancer misdiagnosis at Ennis General Hospital and the need for the Minister for Health and Children to immediately order the Health Information and Quality Authority to undertake a full independent investigation in this regard in the interests of the bereaved families and of restoring public confidence to the hospital in Ennis.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss a matter of urgent and national importance, namely, recent misdisagnoses of breast cancer at Ennis General Hospital and testing at St. James's Hospital and Limerick Regional Hospital. I call on the Minister for Health and Children to immediately establish an independent inquiry to ensure public confidence in our medical services is restored and to bring transparency and accountability to this issue so we can learn from the mistakes made and put in place systems to avoid further recurrence of these tragedies.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of urgent national importance, namely, the imminent savage cutbacks in health services in the north-east region adding to the chaos already created by the stripping away of services by successive Fianna Fáil-led Governments and the need for a proper health service capable of meeting the needs of those requiring health care.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of local and national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Education and Science to include urgently Springdale national school, Raheny in his Department's schools building programme. The Department of Education and Science sanctioned a rebuild of the school in March 2001, some seven years ago. Despite many promises by various Fianna Fáil Ministers and the project having been assessed as a priority no school has been built. The walls are damp, the roof is leaking and there are major health and safety risks with mouse-traps having to be set every evening. I urgently request that the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, intervene and ensure Springdale national school is rebuilt immediately.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following specific and important matter of public interest requiring urgent attention, namely, the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to meet with Galway City Council to address issues that have arisen in regard to the safety of the water supply system in certain areas of Galway city and in particular the needs of elderly residents of the 5,000 houses affected. I hope given the urgency of the issue that the Ceann Comhairle will agree to this request.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of national importance, namely, the escalating crisis in our public health and personal social services with continuing cutbacks adversely affecting patient care across the State including the disgraceful cutting of home help hours for older people, the removal of services from local hospitals, the undermining of public confidence in cancer services, the unpreparedness and inadequacy of the general medical services scheme to cope with the growing number of unemployed people and their families now entitled to the medical card and the gross inequality in the health care system because of Government policy which results in people on lower incomes suffering a far higher rate of chronic illnesses than the rest of the population as highlighted by the report of the Institute of Public Health published in August 2008.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of urgent and national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to extend the date of 31 December in respect of the control of farm waste scheme. The projects have been already approved for funding, the money is desperately needed in this sector and farmers were unable to commence building owing to the horrendous weather this summer. It is imperative that the Minister allows many projects at farm level to be completed. The control of farm waste scheme is vital for the industry which is currently struggling following a difficult year made worse by the terrible weather. The current deadline is damaging both to the agricultural building sector and agricultural sector. It will be dreadful if funding applied for, approved and desperately needed is not sanctioned. This will have a major impact on our rural environment. I ask that the Minister, as a matter of urgency, extend the deadline as soon as possible so people can get on with work under this essential scheme.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of public interest requiring urgent consideration, namely, the need to debate Government proposals to merge five equality and human rights agencies, the effect of which would be to diminish the ability of these agencies to do the jobs they have being doing so well, to silence important independent watchdogs and to breach this State's commitment under the British-Irish Agreement and the need for the Government to clearly detail how any significant cost savings would be achieved in this regard given the agencies in question receive only a restrictive total budget of €18 million or less than 4% of the Department's budget.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following issue of urgent and national importance, namely, the need to discuss the recent report from Egis consultants which raised serious concerns about safety systems in Dublin Port tunnel.
Hear, hear.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of urgent national importance, namely, the huge acceleration in job losses, the collapse in public finances, the crisis in the financial system with massive write-down in the value of pension funds, the lack of any strategy from Government to tackle the huge economic challenges and the lack of any pre-budget economic statement from the Government to inform the Dáil of the challenges and choices.
Hear, hear.
Tar éis breithnithe a dhéanamh ar an nithe ardaithe, níl siad in ord faoi Bhuan Ordú 32. Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 32.
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