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.

Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the failure of Government to provide the necessary funding to support the establishment of a cross-Border scouting camp at Castle Sanderson, on the Cavan-Fermanagh border, when IFI, INTERREG and many private donors clearly support this important youth centre cross-Border project. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern, stated last week that such North-South projects must figure in the new national development plan. The Dáil must discuss this issue and provide funds accordingly.

Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the findings of a study into depression among post-primary students in the north east region of Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath, which recorded the highest incidence nationally, at 20%, of significant levels of depression among post-primary students; the fact that the most likely to experience depression were young persons from single-parent families, or those with low levels of physical fitness; the fact that males and females with low self-esteem were more than 13 times more likely to have depressive symptoms; and the urgent need for innovative school-based programmes with the emphasis on a preventative approach to student depression.

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the increasing practice of retailers to label goods in both euro and sterling with the sterling price being the dominant figure on the label. Often there are significant differences in the prices being charged in euro over sterling. In view of the Know your Rights campaign currently under way there is an obvious need for Government to recognise there is a problem in this regard and to legislate in the interest of the consumer.

Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, when the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children will take action to stop the killing of innocent people by unregulated and unscrupulous alternative practitioners; the actions she intends to take to regulate alternative practitioners as has been promised for years; and to discuss if the working group report she has received on this matter will be of any assistance in this regard in the absence of the statutory regulation of these practitioners.

Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the annual report of the National Parasuicide Registry outlining that 11,000 people presented at hospital accident and emergency units in 2004 due to deliberate self-harm, almost half of whom were under 30 years of age, the peak age for women being 15 to 19 years of age and for men between 20 and 24 years of age.

Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need to implement the new cancer strategy and provide an adequate funding package given that all the chemotherapy facilities in the country now operate at full or over-capacity even though this strategy has been with the Tánaiste for some time.

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