Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

On the Taoiseach's visit to New York in early May, he announced a jobs creation scheme, essentially a €3,000 reward for each job someone in the diaspora creates and that is still in existence after two years. Has anyone taken up this proposition and what job numbers has the Government projected will be created by the initiative?

Did the Taoiseach raise the issue of the undocumented Irish - we have both done so a number of times - directly with President Obama recently? Will the Taoiseach report on this matter?

We are all agreed that the diaspora is important and, particularly in the US, influential. The amount of help it has been to the peace process is a matter of public record. It has encouraged the British quietly and diplomatically to deal with issues the latter may have been reluctant to address. Has the Taoiseach considered the question of legacy issues? In particular, of what assistance will the White House be in respect of the Oireachtas motion on the British Government's refusal to hand over the files on the Dublin-Monaghan bombings? Will the Taoiseach seek the assistance of those in the White House and the wider diaspora to get the British to do what they should as of right?

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