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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 16 Jun 2009

Vol. 684 No. 5

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32.

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.

I seek the Adjournment of the Dáil to consider a mater of national importance, namely, the terms of the reference which NAMA has laid down to the banks in terms of making capital available to businesses. These terms of reference are weighed totally in favour of big builders and are excluding small and medium enterprises with the loss of thousands of jobs.

I seek the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following issue of national importance, namely, in view of the findings of the Ryan report, to ask the Government to give a commitment to those families who have lost loved ones while in the care of residential institutions named in the report and whose remains were buried in communal graves and to ask the Government to do its utmost to enable these families to have the remains of their loved ones returned for family burial.

I seek leave to move the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 on a specific, important matter of public interest requiring urgent attention, namely, the national crisis in front-line health and social services created by the HSE ban on recruitment or replacement of staff, which has severely impacted on the provisions of essential front-line services.

Ba mhaith liom cead a lorg rún a mholadh, an Dáil a chur ar athló faoi Bhuan Ordú 32 chun an t-ábhar seo a phlé: go bhfuil gá rí-thábhachtach poiblí go ndéanfaí plé práinneach ar the need for the the Government to recognise that to tackle the drugs crisis and associated crime effectively, addiction treatment centres must be ready and available when sought by users; and to take urgent action to reduce the growing waiting lists for methadone treatment — which currently stand at a year or more in four of the country's main treatment centres, and nine months in the Aisling centre in Ballyfermot — by making additional resources available for treatment centres and by increasing the cap on the number of addiction patients a GP can initiate treatment for from 35 to 55, thereby assuring an additional 1,000 drug users are taken off the waiting lists of the centralised treatment providers.

Tar éis breithnithe a dhéanamh ar na 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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