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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 10 Apr 2003

Vol. 565 No. 2

Adjournment Debate Matters.

I wish to advise the House that 11 Deputies have submitted matters under Standing Order 21, as follows: (1) Deputy Pat Breen – the need to resist any attempts by the European Commission to change the current bilateral agreement between the US and Ireland; (2) Deputy Boyle – to ask what emphasis, if any, is being placed on implementing the recommendations of the report of the review group on psychological services within the health service; (3) Deputy Harkin – to review the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 1) Regulations 2002, which has had the effect of ensuring that many persons who are entitled to rent allowance are unable to access rent allowance when renting private accommodation; (4) Deputy Cowley – to ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will intervene to resolve the official dispute concerning staff at livestock and veterinary offices throughout the country, and to ask the Minister if he is aware that the dispute is already causing considerable hardship to people who depend on the services of the DVOs who are now unable to fulfil existing contractual obligations to their customers and whose abattoirs are in danger of closing down with imminent staff redundancies; (5) Deputy O'Connor – to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will urgently provide funding, through FÁS under the social economy scheme to enable a long-established community training project in Tallaght to continue in operation; (6) Deputy Gogarty – the need to reintroduce money back bottles and introduce money back cans to reduce litter and, therefore, assist the promotion of Ireland as a clean tourist destination; (7) Deputy McManus – the urgent need to take immediate steps to avert the strike of public health doctors and the procedures being put in place to provide emergency cover; (8) Deputy Costello – the reduction in services that have occurred in hospitals in the Dublin metropolitan area this year; (9) Deputy Broughan – the urgent need to make representations to Russia and Turkey about the peoples of Chechyna and Turkish Kurdistan; (10) Deputy Stanton – the progress on sanctioning the building of a new school of music in Cork as a matter or urgency; and (11) Deputy Upton – that the Minister for Health and Children intervene to prevent the closure of the Mother McAuley Centre from 25 April to 1 May and if he will support the funding and other demands of this centre.

The matters raised by Deputies Stanton, McManus, Costello and Harkin have been selected for discussion.

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