Dáil debates
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32
3:00 pm
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 will call on Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.
Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the crisis in the home help service. In the Rialto and Dolphin's Barn area alone, there are 37 people awaiting home help. Funding is not available from the HSE and it is unacceptable that a number of people will have to remain in hospital this Christmas because of the unavailability of the service. I ask the Minister to address their needs urgently.
Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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I request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following urgent matter, namely, the reduction in secure psychiatric beds at St. Brendan's Hospital by ten from 24, resulting in unacceptable circumstances in which there are no secure beds for very disturbed patients who cannot be accommodated safely in an open ward; and the fact that one disturbed person who recently appeared before the courts required a secure psychiatric bed but was released on bail when none was available.
Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of urgent national importance, namely, the ridiculous situation whereby the Minister for Education and Science is refusing to fund schools adequately while the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is imposing massive water charges on already hard-pressed schools; and the need to achieve joined-up thinking at Government level and to clarify the situation whereby the Taoiseach is claiming the EU is imposing these excessive charges, while other members of the Government are stating the complete opposite.
James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of national importance, namely, the threat to the education of primary school children in light of the financial burden placed on schools which are unable to meet the demand for excessive water charges levied on a piecemeal basis, without apparent logic or reason.
Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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I seek the adjournment of the House under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of urgent national importance, namely, the proposal by the EU Health Commissioner to impose restrictions on the importation of beef from Brazil on the basis of the report by the Food and Veterinary Office, and that this underlines the case for the Government to alter its position and call for a complete ban on Brazilian imports.
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.