Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31. I propose to deal with these topics separately and I will call on Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.
Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance: the necessity to amend employment legislation to allow for the issue of work permits directly to workers rather than to employers in view of the continuing difficulties being experienced by non-EU workers here and to allow the Minister to make a statement on the matter.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance: the need to ensure that cancer services, including radiation oncology, are available in the regions and that treatment will be made accessible to all on the basis of need and without distinction based on geographical location or ability to pay.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance: the refusal of the Minister for Health and Children and the national treatment purchase fund to release figures, either in reply to parliamentary questions or in correspondence, for the numbers of people on acute hospital waiting lists and the need for a debate on the implications of devolving responsibility for collation and use of all such statistics to the national treatment purchase fund.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance: the pending industrial relations meltdown in our hospitals arising directly from the failure of the Minister for Health and Children to address effectively a range of pressing issues, including the crisis in accident and emergency units, the uncertainty for health service staff regarding their employment arising from the establishment of the Health Service Executive, and the failure to renegotiate the consultants' contract to ensure greater equity in hospital care for public patients.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance: the need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to intervene immediately to ensure that a strike of hospital consultants does not take place.
Having considered the matters raised, I do not consider them to be in order under Standing Order 31.