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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 1 Mar 2007

Vol. 632 No. 6

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 seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the early implementation of a universal, new-born hearing screening programme, such as the one which has been in widespread use in the USA since 1964; the admission by HSE chief executive, Professor Drumm, that such a programme had not been implemented with the desired speed; the proven evidence that new-born hearing screening leads to earlier identification and treatment of children with hearing loss, and the effectiveness of screening in contributing to positive outcomes for early-identified, deaf babies.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the systems in place to monitor convicted sex offenders, especially those convicted of charges relating to minors and systematic sexual offenders following their release from prison and those convicted offenders who have been placed on the sex offenders' register and to further debate what notification procedures are in place for the Garda and victims to inform them of releases. I seek also to provide the relevant Ministers with an opportunity to outline which bodies or agencies, if any, are consulted or involved in the run-up to and subsequent release of a convicted sex offender to facilitate continued monitoring, appropriate housing allocation and counselling services aimed at addressing the behaviour which led to the original conviction.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Parlon, to reverse the decision to close Swiss Cottage, Cahir, County Tipperary, to the public for the coming tourism season and to provide immediately alternative, temporary access, which is available. Swiss Cottage is a unique architectural gem, one of the most popular heritage sites in the country and vital to south Tipperary's tourism industry.

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Government to respond to the latest illegal Israeli military incursion into Nablus in the Palestinian West Bank by enforcing emergency economic sanctions on Israel. The latest assault, which commenced last Sunday and was heightened yesterday, has involved some 120 military vehicles, bulldozers and armoured jeeps entering the town, piling up rubble to block roads, besieging three hospitals, actively preventing Palestinian ambulances from approaching the hospitals, placing many thousands of Palestinian civilians under curfew and forcing schools and universities to close. Israeli occupying forces killed and wounded Palestinian civilians and forced young Palestinians to act as their human shields.

Ba mhaith liom gnó na Dála a chur ar athló faoi Bhuan-Ordú 31 chun ceist phráinneach thábhachtach náisiúnta a ardú, a phlé agus a shocrú: the failure of the Government to allocate the required extra staff, including gardaí, to the office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement given the wholly inadequate current staffing levels and in light of non-compliance by a number of companies receiving State contracts with, for example, their duty to pay bills.

Having considered the matters raised, I do not find them to be in order under Standing Order 31.

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