Léim ar aghaidh chuig an bpríomhábhar
Gnáthamharc

Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 24 Feb 2000

Vol. 515 No. 2

Adjournment Debate Matters.

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Farrelly – the reduction in the availability of remedial teachers in a school (details supplied) in County Meath; (2) Deputy McGennis – the need for the Minister for Foreign Affairs to initiate an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied) in London; (3) Deputy Upton – the need for an urgent investigation into price disparities in home insurance premia; (4) Deputy Gay Mitchell – The need for new Government policy to deal with drug abusers, thieves and muggers taking over graveyards and discouraging mourners from visiting them; (5) Deputy Enright – concern at the refusal of the Midland Health Board to grant a medical card to a child (details supplied) who is in urgent need of a heart transplant; (6) Deputy Shatter – the delay in having crucial cardiac surgery in Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin for a child (details supplied) and the refusal of the Midland Health Board to allocate a medical card to the family; (7) Deputy Flood – the urgent need to provide an education welfare officer in the Killinarden area in Tallaght, Dublin 24, in view of the appalling level of school absenteeism arising in the six schools in the area; (8) Deputy Keaveney – the need to ensure the decentralisation of Government Departments to the Inishowen region of County Donegal, having regard to the loss of 1,600 jobs in the region over the past 18 months; and (9) Deputy Broughan – the urgent need to provide for the continuance of the butter voucher scheme given its importance to families on low incomes.

The matters raised by Deputies Upton, Keaveney, Shatter and Farrelly have been selected for discussion.

Barr
Roinn