John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, 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 32. I propose to call Deputies in the order in which they submitted notices to my office.

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following urgent matter: the fact that more than 88,000 fixed charge summonses for motoring offences were listed before the courts during the first six months of 2007, clogging up the District Court unnecessarily, and that new ways of collecting these fines must be introduced, including the handing over of the collection of such fixed charge penalties to a debt collecting agency rather than resorting to the courts.

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following urgent matter: that in light of the HSE ban on recruitment, which is having a serious impact on patient care, including the lack of supervision of a brain injury patient in University College Hospital, Galway, who has already fallen out of bed twice, and the possible closure of wards in the hospital due to the lack of nursing staff, there is an immediate need for the Government to intervene before lives are lost.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following urgent matter: the shocking indictment of the Government's failed prison policy contained in the report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, which concluded that Irish prisons are unsafe for prisoners and prison staff, and the need for the Government immediately to drop its plan to build a superprison at Thornton Hall on the grounds that by virtue of their scale, superprisons are even more difficult to manage and hence will become more unsafe and more entrenched in gang culture, thereby mitigating against successful rehabilitation and, in turn, leading to increased crime through re-offending.

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following urgent matter: the threat to the jobs of the 7,000 persons employed in the pig industry, which is worth in the region of €450 million and to the economy annually, and the failure of the Government to address, among other matters, the escalating cost of feed, the failure of the multiples to pay a fair price and the need for a marketing initiative to promote consumption.

Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following urgent matter: that Tralee currently has one of the highest rates of unemployment in the State at 14% with more than 3,000 people on the live register, that this reflects the lack of effort put into attracting investment to the town, and the need for IDA Ireland as a matter of priority to encourage new enterprises to establish themselves in the area.

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following urgent matter: the decision by the Government, against the advice of the Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs, to take a eurosceptic approach towards EU procedures aimed at a common approach to cross-border crime, against the wishes of 25 other EU states and in line with the British approach, and, in doing so, weakening our ability to influence policy on cross-border crime matters and damaging Ireland's reputation within the EU.

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following urgent matter: the recently published report of the Council of Europe sub-committee outlining disturbing shortcomings in our prison system and the need for immediate action thereon.

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Ceann Comhairle)
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Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 32.