Rory O'Hanlon (Cavan-Monaghan, Ceann Comhairle)
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Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31.

Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the enormous structural damage to people's homes above the route of the Dublin Port tunnel, which has now risen to 254 damaged properties; the urgent need to assist all families affected; that priority be given to the other 115 complaints to ensure that all residents of Marino, Drumcondra, Fairview and Santry are compensated properly; and to give them the maximum support and assistance.

Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for an adequate cancer service in Donegal in order that people living there will not be treated as second class citizens because of their geographic location; and the necessity of providing a satellite radiation unit in the north west.

Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the difficulties arising from the outbreak of the vancomycin resistant enterococcus, VRE, hospital superbug at Cavan General Hospital which have resulted in the closure to new patients of the special care unit at the hospital and the unavailability of beds elsewhere in the Health Service Executive north-eastern area; the fact that clinically discharged patients in both Monaghan General Hospital and Cavan General Hospital continue to occupy bed spaces; and consequently to urge the HSE to consider exploring the possibility of using available bed spaces at St. Davnet's Hospital, Monaghan for patients remaining in both Monaghan and Cavan general hospitals who are clinically discharged, thereby expediting their discharge and freeing up a considerable number of beds; and to examine further methods of fast-tracking nursing home subvention. There are solutions we must actively pursue.

Rory O'Hanlon (Cavan-Monaghan, Ceann Comhairle)
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It is not appropriate to go beyond the notice submitted.

Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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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 Transport to outline the steps he intends to take to secure an end to the industrial dispute at Iarnród Éireann that has resulted in the huge disruption and inconvenience as a result of the withdrawal of rail services for tens of thousands of commuters.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the emerging crisis in respect of the Afghans in St. Patrick's Cathedral seeking refugee status and who have now engaged in a thirst as well as a hunger strike; the unacceptable and draconian manner in which asylum applications are processed in this State; the shameful failure of the State to introduce complementary protections for those individuals who fall outside the narrow convention criteria for refugee status but who may be in grave danger should they be forced to return to their country of origin; and the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to intervene immediately to prevent this crisis turning into a tragedy.

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the failure of the Government to implement the measures needed to end the crisis in accident and emergency units in our hospitals, as set out in the Government's health strategy in 2001, including the provision of the additional 3,000 hospital beds required, a new consultants' contract which prioritises the public system and the roll-out of an efficient and equitable primary care network; and the need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to make herself fully accountable to the Dáil for these failures, including the dire situation in hospitals in the north east region where accident and emergency units are overcrowded, where intensive care beds are not available and where cuts in services have resulted in deaths of patients, including that of the late Pat Joe Walsh.

Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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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 of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to extend the same humanitarian concern and compassion he showed the tens of thousands of Irish people seeking residency in the US to the Afghan hunger strikers in St. Patrick's Cathedral, one of whom has diabetes and is in a critical condition.

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 request by the families of the fishermen lost on the Maggie B to have the vessel lifted from the seabed to ascertain what caused it to sink and to help to bring some closure to the families' grief.

Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the urgent need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to take measures to reduce the number of patients on trolleys in this State, which currently stands at 209 people. A total of 12 patients are lying on trolleys today in Tallaght Hospital in my constituency. In a wealthy country, the fact that a single patient must endure hours and sometimes days on a trolley is unacceptable, not to mention that a few hundred patients must do so. I again call on the Tánaiste to deliver on her promises after 18 months in office.

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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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 Enterprise, Trade and Employment to explain why, despite his commitment that the labour inspectorate would urgently investigate the conditions of 56 Serbians working on the ESB's €3 billion networks renewal scheme, seven weeks later, the inspectorate has not yet submitted its report to the Labour Relations Commission; why workers are still awaiting substantial arrears due to them; and what actions will be taken against the employer, Energo, which, according to evidence produced by the TEEU, was paying workers a mere €3.21 an hour in breach of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000, the registered employment agreement and a number of other pieces of employment law.

Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the crisis in the farming industry resulting from the collapse in dairy farmers' returns, the difficulties in the poultry industry resulting from the adverse publicity regarding avian influenza and the ongoing difficulties and disappearance of the mushroom industry; and the need for Government action at home and at European level before further serious damage is done.

Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the plight of 41 asylum seekers from Afghanistan who are on hunger strike in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, many of whose applications for refugee status have been turned down by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal; the veil of secrecy under which the tribunal operates; and the lack of transparency surrounding the decision-making process.

Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the increasing number of incidents involving mechanical and other failures in the school bus fleet, including apparently spontaneous fires; and the need for an end to the system of annual in-house bus testing by Bus Éireann and for a switch to an objective, independent and rigorous testing system to ensure the safety of schoolgoing children.

Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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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 intervention on a humanitarian basis to secure an end to the hunger and thirst strike involving a number of Afghans seeking asylum in this country having regard to the fact that the group includes a number of minors and that other individuals have been taken to hospital today.

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