Séamus Kirk (Louth, 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 the Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.

James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the hypocrisy of the Government, which is blaming the potential reduction in accident and emergency hours on the working time directive rather than the Government cutbacks in front line staff, which will endanger the lives of the 1.2 million people who visit accident and emergency departments annually.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Ba mhaith liom an Dáil a chur ar athló chun an cheist rí-thábhachtach seo a phlé, the deplorable failure of the Government to operationalise the EU's 116000 missing children hotline, which needs to be set up on an island-wide basis. The urgency of this hotline is underlined in particular by the more than 500 non-national children who went missing from HSE care over the past decade, the 183 children reported as abducted in this State last year and research from Barnardos which found that one in six of the children helped by its specialist sexual exploitation service had been moved around the country by the abuser. There is an urgent need for the Government to make funding available so that the 116000 hotline can start.

Séamus Kirk (Louth, Ceann Comhairle)
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Having considered the matters raised, they are not in order under Standing Order 32.