Séamus Pattison (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31.

Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the alarming predictions by the Irish Nurses Organisation that essential services at Kerry General Hospital accident and emergency unit will be seriously curtailed over the summer months if nothing is done to increase staffing numbers and improve facilities and the fact that the accident and emergency unit in Tralee is already creaking under the strain of demand throughout the winter.

Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the report on the increase in obesity in Ireland, the Government's plans to tackle this serious problem and the need for the Minister for Health and Children to explain the Government's decision to endorse the Nutrition and Health Foundation which has been set up to include a number of obesity friendly or obesogenic companies which the Leas-Cheann Comhairle has asked me not to list for reasons best known to himself. Under protest I respect his ruling.

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the current financial situation at the Abbey Theatre, especially with regard to the recent disclosure that the theatre is in much greater debt than previously indicated, the need for the Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism to make a full statement to the Dáil on this matter and the requirement for a clear indication when a new location for the Abbey Theatre will be selected.

Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to explain how his Department practises work-life balance given his threat to transfer workers within the prison service to any other location in the country away from their family homes, a policy which will be most felt by prison staff previously located at Fort Mitchel, Spike Island.

Séamus Pattison (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 31.