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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 11 Oct 2005

Vol. 607 No. 2

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31.

Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31. I will call the Deputies in the order in which they submitted. Is Deputy Cuffe in the House? The Deputy is not here. Is Deputy McManus in the House? The Deputy is not here. I call Deputy Naughten.

It is lucky someone is here.

I seek leave to move a motion for the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of public concern: the need for the Minister for Agriculture and Food immediately to ban the importation of beef following the confirmation of foot and mouth disease within the Brazilian herd; if she will ensure that such a ban is implemented throughout the EU to protect public health; and if she will outline the steps she is taking to ensure Ireland introduces a clear and transparent food labelling regime.

I seek leave to move a motion for the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of public concern: the inexorable rise in road traffic deaths, eight this weekend and seven deaths last weekend; the latest EU figures revealing Ireland as the only country with significant growth in road traffic deaths and the need for urgent Government action from the Minsters for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and Transport.

I seek leave to move a motion for the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of public concern: the urgent need for the Government, and particularly the Minister for Defence, to ensure that Thomas Kenny and Joseph Fitzpatrick, two Irish soldiers who survived the notorious Niemba massacre in the Congo in November 1960, are given appropriate recognition, to urge the Minister to deal with this dark shadow from the Congo mission and to ensure justice for these two men and their families.

I seek leave to move a motion for the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of public concern: that the Minister for the Environment and Local Government makes a statement to the House on the deteriorating quality of drinking water, and its supply, in Ennis, County Clare; as less than confident information is being given to the people of that town, urging that the very young and the very old should not consume this water and giving an extremely weak commitment that the quality of the drinking water cannot be restored for another two years.

I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely the arrest of Mr. Sean Garland of the Workers Party at the weekend in Belfast by the PSNI and subsequent request for his extradition to the United States and the need for the Government to ensure that due process is followed in the assumption of innocence until proven guilty.

I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely the fact the Government failure to take the action necessary to curb greenhouse emissions will result in the State facing massive fines for failure to reduce emissions output in line with Kyoto commitments and the fact the State's taxpayers and not the big industrial polluters will end up carrying the resulting financial burden.

I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely the arrest of a citizen of the Irish Republic, Sean Garland, on Friday last while on a visit to Belfast on foot of an extradition request conveyed by the US Federal Government through its embassy in London, on which the PSNI subsequently acted, resulting in the arrest of Sean Garland, and his being held in jail overnight, brought to court on Saturday morning and released on bail subject to the condition that he must stay within the jurisdiction of the UK with the consequent denial of his rights as an Irish citizen as the extradition laws between Great Britain and the United States are less stringent than those of the Irish Republic.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the failure of the Minister for Health and Children to act on the review of the ambulance command and control centre that called for the establishment of a joint ambulance control in Dublin in view of its findings that the current system represented a substantial identifiable risk to the patient population of the greater Dublin area, and the need for the Minister to take urgent steps to implement the report's findings.

Having given the matters full consideration, I do not consider them to be in order under Standing Order 31.

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