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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Process (7 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: 596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the upcoming harbours (amendment) Bill; the Stage the Bill is at, at present; and when it is proposed to enact this legislation. [27556/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (7 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: 597. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to the upcoming harbours (amendment) Bill, its proposed impact on port-handling operator licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27557/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (7 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: 598. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to the upcoming harbours (amendment) Bill, his views on whether there may be a potential conflict of interest for port companies which issue cargo-handling operator licences and licences for stevedoring in being involved directly as a competitor to these licensees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27558/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development (7 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: 599. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to the upcoming harbours (amendment) Bill, the work undertaken by a joint steering group established between Drogheda Port and Louth County Council; the number of times it has met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27559/15]

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: Ionsaí uafásach ar na daoine is laige sa tsochaí seo againne iad na ciorruithe atá beartaithe don íocaíocht teaghlaigh aontuismitheora. Why has the Minister for Social Protection decided to pick on lone parents? Why has the Government decided to pick on lone parents? Why not pick on the bankers, rack-renting landlords or employers who rip off workers? Most of...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: Beidh mé críochnaithe anois. Lone parents there will not suffer any loss. Members should remember that. The Tories in London wanted to stop lone-parent allowance at one year old and Sinn Féin prevented that. The allowances will not be reduced unless the parents have child care. In other words, we kept the promises we made.

European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: By refusing to extend Greece’s bailout, the EU is attempting to do the same thing to Greek citizens and to undermine a free and democratic decision of a proud people. The crisis in Greece is about power and democracy underpinned by the question of democratic values, of whether the values of solidarity and cooperation, claimed by the founders of the European movement actually underpin...

European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: I again express my sincere condolences, and those of Sinn Féin, to the families of Larry and Martina Hayes, and of Lorna Carty, the three Irish citizens brutally killed in an indiscriminate attack on tourists in Tunisia, which I utterly condemn. I extend condolences to all those, from whatever part of the world they come, who were killed in these attacks, as well as the victims of the...

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach for his answer but wish to reiterate the point that Teachta Mac Lochlainn was making. I said in my remarks that we respect absolutely and uphold the right of citizens to go to the courts. We are not seeking to interfere with the court system or interfere in any way with the separation of powers between the Judiciary and the Oireachtas but there seems to be an...

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: Tá ceist agam faoi the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill agus ceann eile faoi the Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill. I will deal with that ar dtús. The Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill is up for debate tomorrow. It will allow creditors, including Irish Water, to apply for a court order that enables the attachment of earnings or deductions from social...

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: No, it is not agreed to. I object to the rescheduling of Private Members' business which clearly is being done by the Government to facilitate the railroading through of contentious legislation before the Dáil goes into recess. The Private Members' motion is about cuts to lone parent payments, yet the Government is moving the debate to prioritise even more austerity measures for...

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: Yes, it does.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: I have, as the Taoiseach noted, some experience of negotiation.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: Let us try to get to the bottom of why the Taoiseach holds to his position. The decades of corruption and economic mismanagement of Greece are the disastrous legacy of successive Governments with which the Taoiseach's Government has been closely associated.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Government which the Greek people rejected was led by New Democracy, which is a sister party of Fine Gael in the European Parliament.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: The other component of that coalition Government was Pasok, the party which implemented the original Greek bailout and a sister party of the Irish Labour Party. The two governing parties in this State are inexplicably linked to the parties in power in Greece when the problems in its economy were created as a result of corruption and a lack of regulation. Does that not sound familiar?

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: Did Fine Gael or Labour Party Members ever speak to their Greek counterparts about the disastrous policies which crashed the Greek economy? If they have not done so, is it not the case that the Taoiseach's current posturing on the new Greek Government, which has already started to implement a programme of genuine and widespread reform of the Greek economy, amounts to rank hypocrisy? Will...

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: It is more than that.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: I would call that untrue.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: Does the Taoiseach accept that the debt crisis in Greece is about EU elites trying to force the Government of Greece into accepting an outcome that contravenes its electoral mandate? They want to Greek Government to do what Fine Gael and the Labour Party did. They tore up their mandate, reneged on their election promises and undermined the people's right to assert democratic control over...