Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with several notices under Standing Order 32. I will call 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, the dramatic reduction in services delivered by the Brothers of Charity service in Galway because of cutbacks and to implore the Minister for Health and Children to step in and prevent what most people believed they would never see — the closure of two community houses where the occupants will be transferred to already crowded homes involving over 20 people being moved out of premises they call home, where respite care services are likely to be cut dramatically at the end of the year, which will disproportionately affect the handicapped and their families of the Ballinasloe advocates in the Ballinasloe area of County Galway and where three multi-disciplinary posts are to be cut as opportunities arise. The only losers are the handicapped and their families. I implore the Taoiseach to take this seriously. It is a disaster.
Hear, hear.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the chronic shortage of junior doctors in the Irish health sector, which is putting patients' lives in extreme danger and is the result of more mismanagement on the part of the HSE, which has seen policy changes driving non-EU doctors out of the system to the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada and low salary levels deterring young Irish doctors.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of urgent, national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Health and Children to provide funding urgently to the Brothers of Charity for the provision of respite and other services in County Galway in order to maintain the level of support and care to the many special needs families in Ballinasloe and east Galway dependent on their support for respite, residential and day care services.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss an urgent and important matter, namely, the recent budget cuts by the HSE to respite care services. As a result of these cuts, respite care services that have already suffered severe cutbacks in recent times are set to be cancelled. It is a disgrace that those with disability and special needs have been forced onto the streets to the defend the meagre provisions provided to them and I call on the Minister and the HSE to reverse the cutbacks immediately. I also call on the Minister to instruct the HSE to withdraw the letters that have caused such misery and worry.
Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 32.
Why are they not in order?
There are other ways of raising them.
Of all the things being discussed today, there could hardly be anything more important.
There are other ways, such as the Adjournment debate.
We are raising this on behalf of the people who cannot speak to themselves.
Deputy Connaughton should try the Adjournment debate.