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 need to end the long-running controversy over the Niemba massacre of Irish soldiers in the Congo on 8 November, 1960, where nine men lost their lives, and support Private Thomas Kenny and Private Joseph Fitzpatrick, survivors of the massacre, on this matter; and for the House to pay tribute to all Irish United Nations soldiers who lost their lives while serving for international peace.

Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the immediate need to provide Doolin coast guard search and rescue service with a new station at Doolin following the three recent drownings in County Clare.

Pádraic McCormack (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the small window of opportunity available for amendments to the electoral register which, coupled with a high level of inaccuracy on the register despite the recent advertising campaign, poses a threat to the integrity of the results of the next general election. Despite the fact that the draft register is only now available in most local authorities, giving less than two weeks for corrections, why has the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government refused consistently to extend the deadline beyond 25 November thus disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters?

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the imminent diversion of 6,000 vehicles to the M50 when the port tunnel opens in December leading to predictable chaos on the M50 and surrounding outer feeder roads, which requires an emergency response involving the immediate lifting of the toll barriers. If the Government is unwilling to do this, it can at least pay the tolls for commuters until the barriers go in 2008, the annual estimate for which is dwarfed by the stamp duty paid in areas serviced by the toll bridge. It is time to give something back to those crippled by sky-rocketing house prices and epic commutes. The Government must pay the tolls and lift the barriers now.

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 abdication by the Government of its care of older people with high dependency needs as manifested by its lack of confidence in some private nursing homes, and the need for the State to take over and fully fund all high dependency care for older people in accordance with their legal entitlement, whether such persons are located in State institutions or private nursing homes, and to encourage not-for-profit community alternatives for older-person care.

Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the chronic traffic congestion in Clondalkin, Lucan and other towns surrounded by the N7, M50 and N4, which is impacting on the daily lives of tens of thousands of people, interfering with national economic activity and costing the State money through lost productivity; and the need for the Government to inject a new sense of urgency into tackling the gridlock by providing additional buses, the early electrification of the Kildare route as far as Adamstown by 2011 not 2015, and the early construction of the interconnector between Heuston Station and Spencer Dock. If these actions are not taken, the gridlock will continue for another generation.

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the revelation that admissions have been suspended by the HSE for five nursing homes in the Dublin area, the fact that so few inspection reports are available on the Internet and the need for the Minister for Health and Children to make an immediate statement on what she knew about the state of our nursing homes, how she intends to tackle the serious problems in them and when she intends to introduce a robust and fully independent inspection system.

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 need, in the absence of any substantial commitment to reduce greenhouse gas by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government at the UN climate change summit in Nairobi, for the Government to commit itself to clear and binding annual targets to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on imported energy.

Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, 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 for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to approve immediately the Clonmel wilderness-Carrigeen regeneration scheme to improve physical infrastructural and tackle environmental issues in the area; and to ask the Minister to make a statement on the matter.

Rory O'Hanlon (Cavan-Monaghan, Ceann Comhairle)
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Having given the matters full consideration, I do not consider them to be in order under Standing Order 31.