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 wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, in view of the vastly increased volumes of non-English speaking non-Irish nationals presenting at hospital accident and emergency units, the fact that their primary illness may be compounded by anxiety, reactions to separation from family and their cultural and ethnic beliefs, their inability to communicate their symptoms to hospital staffs and failure to understand staff members' explanation and advice, the need to avoid delays, misdiagnosis and incorrect medication dosages and the necessity to obtain maximum benefit from hospital health care services, the critical need to provide basic translation facilities in the form of printed documents with admission and discharge instructions, patient care instructions, and disease information in the official EU languages and major world languages for all hospital accident and emergency departments.
I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Government to take urgent action to provide emergency accommodation for the estimated 275 on the streets and 4,000 overall homeless persons in Dublin city and elsewhere in the face of worsening severe winter conditions; and in view of the deaths that have occurred amongst the homeless from hypothermia already this year and thereby to ensure that nobody else dies from the cold this winter and that the reasons and causes of and for homelessness are finally tackled and ended.
I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the decision of the Health Service Executive to close Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.
I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, to discuss the Irish Medicines Board report on the blood transfusion services centre in Cork which stated that the buildings housing the services are totally unsuitable and affect the standards of the services, despite the fact that a new purpose built centre has been promised by this Government since 1999.
I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the loss of 100 jobs at the Department of Agriculture and Food, Davitt House, Castlebar, County Mayo where Mayo people are being forced to move to Portlaoise or accept shift work alternative employment for the Garda PULSE system for which they are not primarily trained and the need for the Minister for Agriculture and Food and the Government to intervene.
I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, to address the lack of any effective plan for Government to have Ireland comply with the future limits being decided at Montreal on greenhouse gases other than to have the taxpayer pay for the fines which will accrue to the Government to be paid for out of the carbon fund.
I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the remarks made by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform under Dáil privilege, and the implications that these have for the independent watchdog body the Centre for Public Inquiry.
Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 31.