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 on Deputies in the order in which they submitted notices to my office.

James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, 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 doubling of long-term unemployment, which must be urgently tackled by the Government, with official figures showing that 112,600 people had been out of work for a year or more up to the end of March, 40% of the those on the dole, with Ireland's unemployment rate of 12.3% standing at 3.1% above the EU average.

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to address the following matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Health and Children to explain her silence and inaction on the miscarriage misdiagnosis issue given that she has now admitted that she was aware of the case at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth, since August 2009 yet has failed to show that either she, her Department or the HSE considered the wider implications or the possibility that women in other hospitals may have had the same experience; and the need to explain why it was only after the matter received widespread publicity that the HSE ordered its current review of cases in the past five years.

Dan Neville (Limerick West, 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 proposed closure of three psychiatric hospitals - St. Ita's, St. Brendan's and St. Senan's - next February; the need to develop multidisciplinary-based psychiatric services in the community, as recommended as early as 1984; and the risk to patients in these hospitals, and to potential patients, who will not now have access to efficient, proper and community-based services.

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the removal of all acute medical services from Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, over the next two weeks to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, when many essential services at the latter are already under threat of closure as a result of a shortage of staff, particularly junior doctors; the real danger that patient safety is being compromised, which could lead to facilities; and the need to postpone the transfer of these essential services at least until a proper, safe transfer plan is put in place. On Question Time, the Taoiseach referred to people dumping on the health service. The Government is dumping on people who are in need of that service at present. The transfer to which I refer should not happen until a proper and safe plan is put in place.

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Government to allocate funding to reopen the respite house in Limerick, which is run by the Brothers of Charity, which caters for 63 families in the mid-west and which closed this week as a result of the effect of cutbacks.

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