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Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Since the Stormont House Agreement was reached at Christmas, Sinn Féin has been engaging positively in party leaders' meetings at Stormont to ensure its full implementation. However, it became clear last week that the DUP was intent on reneging on commitments in that agreement. Martin McGuinness discovered that it was the intention of the DUP to provide only partial protection to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: 317. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number and monetary value of farm thefts in County Louth in 2014 and 2015 to date; the steps that have been taken to address this issue; and her views on setting up a special unit within An Garda Síochána to investigate cattle rustling, and farm thefts. [10150/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that the delivery of phase 4 and phase 6 apprentice training will be retained in Dundalk Institute of Technology, County Louth; if she will appoint a Teachers Union of Ireland representative to the Apprenticeship Council; if departmental resources have been allocated to develop apprenticeship training to deliver master...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Charges (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: 565. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the removal of parking charges at train stations in Laytown and Gormanstown, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10379/15]

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: The number of citizens lying on trolleys in hospitals this morning stands at 520. Within my constituency, there are 40 people on trolleys in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. Conditions in the emergency department at Beaumont Hospital are now so bad that a senior emergency department doctor in a letter to hospital management and the HSE described them as the equivalent of health-care...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: I do not know what the Taoiseach means when he says this is not the first time that a person involved in medical services has written a letter like this. I do not know what he means when he says the Minister commented on the matter this morning. The Minister is not just a commentator.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: People will be outraged at the contrast between the conditions endured by patients in emergency departments on the Government's watch and the Comptroller and Auditor General's report that HSE managers are claiming public money for nights in five star hotels, flights for guests and alcohol on trips. The audit report also found that a former retired employee was rehired on a contract of six...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Tánaiste is telling us how our recovery-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Cuirim an ceist anois. The Tánaiste is telling us that a recovery in public finances means the Government will make long-term investment, but there has not been one word about the hospital crisis or the 24,369 patients who are awaiting elective surgery for more than six months. Contrary to what the Taoiseach claims, his Minister did not respond to this matter this morning. He waltzes...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Let us focus on a solution. The current health budget is entirely unrealistic and insufficient to deal with the crisis. Getting medically discharged patients home or into nursing beds will relieve all of that by giving them the protections they deserve as citizens. I ask the Taoiseach to refrain from smart alec remarks and to try to deal with a solution to resolve this problem. For once,...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: We can talk about water some other time.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Why does the Taoiseach not come up to Derry?

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach's time is up.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Not necessarily.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: How will the Government play its part?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: I seek clarity on the water issue. According to Irish Water's own projections, water services will only have been marginally improved by 2021, but the taxpayer will end up paying more. By that point, Irish Water will have spent approximately €8 billion. There is still time to consider setting all of this aside to establish a proper water service funded from general taxation and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: The programme for Government, which I read, states the Government's goal in respect of our water service: "To achieve better quality water and environment we will introduce a fair funding model to deliver clean and reliable water." By this standard, the Government has failed and has not put forward a fair funding model. Looking at the water services strategic plan published two weeks ago,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: That is fair enough. The point I am trying to make in terms of the programme for Government commitment to create a fair funding model to deliver clean and reliable water is that the Taoiseach would be better off abandoning the remnants of the old model and going for a proper focus on providing that and taking the burden off citizens. On the issue of climate change, what the Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on economic infrastructure and climate change last met.. [2155/15]

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Last week, following threats to republican families in south Armagh who have been forthright in their support for the PSNI and their opposition to criminality, a booby trap bomb was left close to the home of a local Sinn Féin leader, Frank McCabe. Francis McCabe Jnr, whose only offence is that he is from a republican family, and who is a good, decent, hard working man and a good...