Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 32. I will call on Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.
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, to discuss the €10 air travel tax. This tax is depressing our tourism and aviation industries, especially at Shannon Airport, where we are set to lose several European and UK routes. The economy of the mid-west is very dependent on the tourism industry. Unemployment in County Clare is on the rise again and this tax is affecting our competitiveness. I want the Minister for Finance to clarify immediately if he will abolish this tax as it is an unfair tax in an island nation, is destroying the aviation sector and is wiping out the region. The Minister must take action now and acknowledge the mistake he made in introducing the air travel tax.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, given the confusion surrounding the future of the Limerick regeneration process, which falls under the responsibility of Cabinet, I call on the Taoiseach as head of Cabinet to immediately clarify the situation regarding the current and capital funding of Limerick regeneration for 2010 and subsequent years and not renege on his Government's commitments on funding for this vital project in the interest of restoring credibility with people in the process of the regeneration of the areas of Moyross, Southill, St. Mary's Park and Ballinacurra Weston and the wider Limerick city.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need to summon the Minister for Health and Children into this House to give an undertaking that she will immediately halt the cut to accident and emergency services at Our Lady's Hospital Navan, and to afford the people of its catchment area a reasonable level of health service; and to get an undertaking from the Minister that she will cease cramming services into Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, which does not have the capacity to take on these additional services. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is not a regional hospital and does not have the capacity to handle the work of a regional hospital. The Government should wise up and stop cutting back on our health services.
Having considered the matters raised, I do not consider them to be in order under Standing Order 32.