Anois, iarratais chun tairiscint a dhéanamh an Dáil a chur ar athló faoi Bhuan-Ordú 32. We now move to requests to move the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32. I call Deputy Crawford.
Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the failure of the HSE to deliver dental services in Cavan-Monaghan and elsewhere due to staff shortages. According to the HSE's letter, current service provision is predominately emergency only, yet the HSE has refused to pay for children who subsequently had to seek private treatment. In the same way, with the Department of Education and Science, it has failed to provide education structures for a child, although there was total agreement to provide such structures two years ago based on autism difficulties. The parents of the child have received a number of written commitments but as yet there has been no delivery. It is clear that the financial difficulties of the HSE and the Government are being imposed on the weakest section of the community, children and young people with specific difficulties.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 in the light of yesterday's debate on education to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the fact that St. Angela's College, a girls secondary school located at Patrick's Hill in Cork, was forced to close and send home its 500 pupils on Tuesday after strong winds and stormy weather affected its dilapidated buildings, causing slates to fall from the roof and leading to serious health and safety concerns for the students. The students are currently housed in a decaying 19th century building and decades old prefabs. In 1999 the then Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Martin, announced to an assembled group that he was about to give €4 million to build a new school but nine years later nothing has materialised. Funding must immediately come on stream to avoid further closures of the school and hardship to its 500 pupils.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Health and Children to make herself accountable to the Dáil for the continuing impact of cuts imposed by the HSE; to take action to prevent the further cuts of €300 million threatened by the HSE chief executive, Professor Brendan Drumm; to set out where she considers redundancies should take place, given her statement that the HSE should adopt a redundancy programme, especially in the light of the impact on patient care of current staffing restrictions and the Labour Court ruling that the HSE was in breach of Towards 2016 and the EU information and consultation directive in the manner in which it introduced, without prior consultation, staffing restrictions in September 2007.
Tar éis breithniú a dhéanamh ar an nithe ardaithe, níl siad in ord faoi Bhuan Ordú 32. Having considered the matters raised, I do not consider them to be in order under Standing Order 32