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Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: B'fhéidir go bhféadfadh Sinn Féin tacú a thabhairt don Taoiseach mar chigirí. D'fhéadfaimís na cartaí tuairisce a mharcáil.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Tá a fhios againn gur mharcáil mhuintir na tíre carta tuairisce an Teachta Martin, ach sin scéal eile.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Inné, rialaigh an Chúirt Uachtarach go raibh alt 29 de Acht um Chiontaí in Aghaidh an Stáit ag teacht salach ar an mBunreacht. Fuair an Chúirt nach raibh gardaí neamhspleách agus iad déileáil leis an gceist faoi chuartú ar theach shaoranach. Cén chéim a ghlacfaidh an Rialtas chun déanamh cinnte de go bhfuil gach uile phíosa reachtaíochta ag luí leis an mBunreacht agus le...

Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Rialaigh an Chúirt Uachtarach go raibh Acht um Chiontaí in Aghaidh an Stáit ag teachta salach ar an mBunreacht.

Lá na Gaeilge: Statements (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis an Teachta Ó Snodaigh.

Lá na Gaeilge: Statements (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Gabhaim buíochas leo siúd ar fad a d'oibrigh ar son na Gaeilge thar na blianta - in amanna deacra agus in amanna níos éasca. Tá mé ag smaoineamh go háirithe ar teaghlaigh Gaeilge. Gabhaim buíochas speisialta le TG4, Raidió na Gaeltachta, Raidió Fáilte agus na meáin cumarsáide Gaeilge eile. Beatha teanga í a labhairt. Cuireann sé an-shásamh orm go bhfuil borradh tagtha ar...

European Council: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: My copy of the Taoiseach's statement had an extra page appended to it. While I am not sure it is usual, it is an almost idiosyncratic way of undermining his remarks because it tells us it was composed by a person, updated by a person and modified by a person.

European Council: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: I thought I would share that with the Taoiseach as part of the little foibles of this institution. As the Taoiseach knows, this crisis is about more than economics, bank bailouts and promissory notes to criminal banks; it is about people. The choices Fine Gael and Labour, like Fianna Fáil before them, are making are putting unbearable pressure on our people. The evidence is all around us....

European Council: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Éist liom. To do so would be to break the commitment given at the European Council summit of 21 July 2011 when the leaders said they were "determined to continue to provide support to countries under programmes until they have regained market access, provided they successfully implement those programmes." It would also have a devastating impact on the eurozone as a whole, if they did the...

European Council: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: We believe this is the only sensible option for citizens in this State. I urge the Taoiseach to make speedy progress toward setting the date for the referendum. Let us have a fair, informed and informative debate and let the people decide.

Written Answers — Tax Reliefs: Tax Reliefs (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person who agreed a purchase price for a house in November 2008, paid a deposit on the purchase of a house on 5 December 2008, drew down a mortgage on the property in March 2009 which is now in serious negative equity and struggling to pay their mortgage is entitled to the increased rate of mortgage interest relief as announced in budget 2012...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 31 of 22 February 2012, if he will explain the reason in his response he stated that neither his Department nor the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, was given notice of the retention agreement between a company and the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, before the agreement was signed, yet in...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the exact date the retention agreement between the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, and a company (details supplied) was signed; if he will detail the precise date on which his Department or the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, was given notice of this agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in respect of her decision, announced in budget 2012, to reduce the employer's rebate on redundancies from 60% to 15%, if she will consider reviewing her position and consider introducing a derogation from the reduced rate for the small and medium enterprise sector. [12918/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social Protection, further to Parliamentary Question No. 376 of 21 February 2012 in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Meath, if the relevant departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the deciding officer on the grounds of appeal have been received by the social welfare appeals office; if the applicant will be granted an oral...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health if the key performance indicators for emergency response times for the national ambulance service which the Health Information and Quality Authority published in November 2010 have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12908/12]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health if a new intermediate care service comprising of a new type of ambulance known as an intermediate care vehicle to be crewed by a new grade of intermediate care operative to respond to lower acuity calls and with a primary role of patient transfers to take pressure off the emergency medical services has been introduced; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (7 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health if he approved 40 new posts at the new grade of intermediate care operative, ICO; if the Health Service Executive purchased over 20 of the new intermediate care vehicles; the total cost of these vehicles; if they are now in operation; if the Health Service Executive advertised these positions and formed a panel to fill the 40 ICO positions; the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (8 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 23: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a shortfall in the €160 million raised through household charges, if he will pay the balance of the €160 million to fund local authority services; and if not, the way that shortfall will be met. [13076/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (8 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 33: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to encourage local authorities to use land banks they have procured to provide social housing. [13083/12]