Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I share the Taoiseach's concern about the situation in east Belfast. I was in touch overnight with people from Belfast. We need to appeal to everyone to be calm and to show leadership but also we need from this Dáil acts of practical solidarity with those communities. I encourage Teachtaí Dála from every party to go quietly to Belfast and to make an arrangement to visit some of these areas. Sinn Féin held a conference in Dublin last Saturday, a uniting Ireland conference, with representatives from some of those communities speaking at the conference about their particular concerns and fears.

This morning, I wish to return to the crisis in our health services. The economic mismanagement by the previous Government is now being continued by this Government which is committed to a deeply flawed bailout plan. Banking executives and senior politicians and heads of State bodies are walking off with big pensions while our health system is grinding to a halt. Today there are 329 citizens on trolleys-----

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