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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the religious leaders he has met with in 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14494/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that the issue of Seanad reform has not been tackled and that it has been on the political agenda for as long as the Seanad has existed. There have been 12 reports on Seanad reform and following the McNulty debacle, as the Taoiseach outlined, the Seanad reform working group was established by him, but its report has not been acted on. We did not even get...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the status of proposals to reform Seanad Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12980/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his progress in furthering the proposals in the Manning report on reform of Seanad Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12981/16]

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: I welcome the Taoiseach's visit to the University of Ulster and to Belfast on Monday in support of the campaign against Brexit. Notwithstanding the news that Mr. Cameron has decided to pull out of an event with the Taoiseach, I understand he will be spending several days in the north of England and Scotland. There are only nine days left before the vote takes place. Will the Taoiseach or...

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: Ní bheidh mé ach móimint, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: Greyhound’s standing charge has also been increased. Citizens and households have to sign up for a 12-month contract and these new measures kick in on 1 July. There is an urgency about this. It will inevitably lead to an increase in illegal dumping, a point the Taoiseach would acknowledge. Has the Government considered urgent action such as exemptions for households, especially...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach takes exception to what I said but then goes on to say there is "certainly a feeling of a divide" between the people living in the area and those who take decisions. There is a feeling? It is the reality. Poverty is not an accident. Inequality is not an accident. It took brutal murders committed by criminal gangs to get the Taoiseach to acknowledge the inequalities faced by...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has an opportunity to correct this. I hope he will not fail to do so.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: I welcomed the Taoiseach's visit last night to Dublin’s north inner city where he met with some of the community and listened to what they had to say. I hope he understands that this was just the first chapter in the consultation that needs to happen between the Government and the people there. He says that those who spoke at the meeting were inspirational and he is right. They are....

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: The North Wall Community Association's chairperson, Gerry Fay, has said that three decades of neglect have created social apartheid for people in his community. He spoke of a litany of broken promises over the last 30 years. Results count. Ní seasaíonn mála folamh. I want the Taoiseach to commit today to a long-term, resourced and integrated strategy to address poverty,...

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom an Bille seo a mholadh agus buíochas a ghabháil leis an Teachta Ó Broin as ucht é a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. This is an important Bill and I hope the Dáil will agree that it is a component in tackling the unparalleled housing and homelessness crisis prevalent in the State at this time. If they do not agree to it tonight, or when we vote on...

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland (14 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: All victims and their families and communities deserve truth and justice. That includes the families of those killed in Loughinisland. The British Government and its agencies armed, directed and then covered up the killings at Loughinisland. That is a fact and there can be no dispute about that. Over the years, I have met many families of victims of the conflict. They include victims...

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland (14 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: Will the Government allow time in the Dáil for this and other matters relating to the North to be debated?

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland (14 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: The report by the Police ombudsman in the North into the murders of six men in Loughinisland has confirmed once again the use by the British state of administrative collusion between its security agencies, the RUC, the UDR and Unionist paramilitary organisations. The years of conflict were brutal and vicious. The Loughinisland report is one example of this. A total of 3,500 people died and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: Has the Minister for Justice and Equality referred the complaint passed to her to the Garda Commissioner? It relates to the allegation made by two Garda officers to the effect that Sergeant Maurice McCabe had confessed or admitted to them that he had behaved with malice. She was asked to refer that to the Garda Commissioner. She had not done so as of recently. Has she now done so?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when he established, or will establish, the Cabinet committee on justice reform and the dates of meetings already held and of planned meetings. [11764/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: 20. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet committee on justice reform in 2016 to date. [12987/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet committee on justice reform took place. [12988/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: I seek an update on the Taoiseach's commitment to meet activists, community leaders and others in the Dublin north inner city following the brutal killings of seven people in the area. I do not know if this matter was discussed by the Cabinet committee on justice reform. I am also concerned to learn that the Minister for Justice and Equality has failed to act on a recommendation made to...