Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the important matter of an 80 year old man who became seriously ill while walking across a field in east Galway, last Friday. He was immediately assisted by his next door neighbour who fortuitously is involved in the private ambulance service system, and had at his disposal the choice of three top of the range ambulances standing within a few yards of where the man became ill. However, he was prevented from taking the severely ill patient to Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, and had to wait for the arrival of a HSE ambulance from Galway 30 minutes later.

It is worth noting that the patient was made comfortable and given oxygen in his neighbour's ambulance, but had to be transferred to the HSE vehicle for transportation to the hospital. In the circumstances, he is making reasonable progress in hospital. However, the local community cannot understand why a state of the art ambulance was not allowed to convey a very sick patient to hospital.

Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate a matter of major national importance as to why another 260 women who live at present in the west and south have to die needlessly under breast screening apartheid because of the failure of Government to ensure that BreastCheck reaches all women before 2009. The lives of those particular women can be saved from the terrible ravages of breast cancer if An Tánaiste and the Government would only agree to provide a temporary breast screening service, as is being offered by the Galway Clinic since 2003, pending the full roll-out of BreastCheck to the south and west by 2009.

Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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I seek the adjournment of Dáil Éireann under Standing Order 31 to address a matter of increasingly urgent national importance, that is, to bring forward the legislation needed to end the extortion which passes for management company fee demands in many new housing estates, for the Government to bring forward a timetable for this legislation, and in the meantime action to protect residents from this unjust practice.

Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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I seek leave to adjourn the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following issue of national importance on the day the Revised Estimates for Education are being voted on, namely the need for the Government to cherish all of the State's children equally by funding education instead of cherrypicking investment as regards schools and other educational institutions and giving a callous "either/or" choice for much needed funding. There is a need for the Government to realise that changing its prim self-righteous refusal stance towards providing the necessary investment will benefit us all in the medium term.

Rory O'Hanlon (Cavan-Monaghan, Ceann Comhairle)
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Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 31.