Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31. I will call 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 debate the following urgent matter: the serious misgivings being expressed about the effects of unmonitored levels of chemical fluoridation of drinking water on public health; the correlation between dental fluorosis and bone fractures in children, the Republic's rate of dental fluorosis which is triple that of Northern Ireland where fluoridation is banned and the failure to implement the recommendations of the forum on fluoridation to reduce limits of fluoride in drinking water.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the public outcry over the crisis in hospitals, including the generous offers from members of the public of portacabins and equipment as a practical gesture to accident and emergency departments which are so chronically under-resourced at present.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: that the current arrangements for drift netting of wild salmon at sea may place the State in breach of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea which places obligations on the State for the conservation of migratory wildlife, and the condemnation by the UK authorities of our drift netting policy which has now become an issue in the upcoming British general election.
Having considered the matters raised they are not in order under Standing Order 31.
It will be a shock when the Ceann Comhairle approves one of those matters.
Some day.