Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31.
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 protracted and inordinate delay in enacting legislation to enable pensioners from whom nursing home charges were illegally deducted to be reimbursed, leaving them bereft of their pension funds for upwards of an additional two years; the despair felt by thousands of pensioners of ever living to receive a penny of the amounts due to them; and to propose that the Government make the gesture of advancing a substantial interim ex gratia payment prior to Christmas, in the spirit of the season, to those pensioners still living whose pension funds were illegally requisitioned by an indifferent State.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the necessity for the Minister for Education and Science to make a statement on the action she intends to take to address the plight of 23 schoolchildren from Blackwater in County Wexford who have been denied access to school bus transport on the alleged grounds that they are outside the catchment area while other children in the same vicinity have been granted access to the school bus service.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the failure of the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to establish an ambulance base for the Mulranny, Achill and Ballycroy areas of County Mayo, considering that the health of people residing in those areas is at serious risk because of the unacceptable two-hour time lapse between when an ambulance is called and when it arrives due to the failure to locate such a base within the recommended 20-mile radius for the safety of the public in the area.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to appoint additional dedicated community gardaí to every Garda district to deal with the scourge of anti-social behaviour affecting towns and villages which was highlighted this week on Prime Time; and to ask the Minister to make a statement on the matter.
I have high hopes that the pattern of acceptance will follow the rule of buses whereby several arrive at once after a long wait. I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the suggestion by the British Government that the nuclear option be re-examined for future energy supply.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: to allow the Minister for Education and Science to address the Dáil on the matter of Marie Therese O'Loughlin who is on protest outside the House for more than 60 days; to explain why she is satisfied with the response from the Department of Health and Children that it could find no record of a statutory body having a regulatory or inspection role at the Morning Star mother and baby institution, when mothers as young as 14 were referred there and infants were kept there for a protracted period when their mothers were hospitalised; in these circumstances, to explain her continued refusal to include the Morning Star as an institution for redress.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: to allow the Minister for Health and Children to address the Dáil on the matter of Marie Therese O'Loughlin who is in protest outside this House for more than 60 days; to explain to the House why her Department could find no record of a statutory body having a regulatory or inspection role with regard to the Morning Star mother and baby institution, when mothers as young as 14 were referred there and infants were kept there for protracted periods when their mothers were hospitalised; in these circumstances, to explain how this appalling negligence is not now being investigated.
Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 21.