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Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (7 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: I request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of national importance requiring urgent attention, namely, the need to remove the funding cap on rape crisis centres and women's refuges in place since 2002 and to properly fund these agencies, particularly in light of the significant increase in workload, and to ask the Minister to make a statement on the matter.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss an issue of urgent importance, namely, the serious and persistently high unemployment levels in excess of 20% in the town of Carrick-on-Suir, where 890 of the town's population of 5,000 are unemployed, the exacerbation of that situation by the closure of SRAM Ireland with the loss of a further 53 jobs. I ask the Minister...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: I wish to raise a point of order. Why has the Ceann Comhairle's office ruled out my matter to be raised under Standing Order 31?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It is in order. I am entitled to know the basis on which it has been ruled out. The standing order states that the adjournment on an important matter of public interest requiring urgent attention——

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: More than 25% of the people of Carrick-on-Suir are unemployed and I cannot understand why that is not a matter of public interest.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: How does the Ceann Comhairle's office decide that such an issue is not matter of urgent importance?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: I appreciate it is not your decision, Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but the Ceann Comhairle's office is out of order on this matter.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: This is an urgent situation and I ask the Ceann Comhairle's office to allow a debate on the subject.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It is an absolute disgrace that a situation where 25% of the population of a town is unemployed and a factory has just closed is not a matter for consideration in this House.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Carrick-on-Suir has been felled by the news that 53 jobs will be lost to the town as a result of the closure of SRAM Ireland. This is a bad blow, particularly as the town already has an unemployment rate of more than 20%, with 890 people on the live register. Carrick-on-Suir is one of six blackspots in the south east identified by the South East Regional Authority. The town's circumstances...

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Nothing has happened since the Minister met a deputation from Carrick-on-Suir last year.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Nearly everyone from Carrick-on-Suir with a job is employed outside the town. We need employment in the town.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Carrick-on-Suir has the same number of unemployed today as it had 12 months ago. It had no effect.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: What about Carrick-on-Suir?

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Is it true that the same number of people are unemployed in Carrick-on-Suir today as 12 months ago?

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It is a pity he will not tell us the truth.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: That he will do nothing for Carrick-on-Suir. It is the same reply I received four months ago.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Decentralisation, Minister.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It requires a high-level jobs taskforce because this is a specific case.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: The Minister will do nothing for Carrick-on-Suir. It is the same reply I received four months ago.