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Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Every circus needs its clowns.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: I would like the Taoiseach's help.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: This seems to be about reducing the interest rate on the bailout. While this is important, it will happen anyway, as other Sinn Féin Deputies and I have stated previously. I am trying to come to terms with the matter. As I look at the Greek Government's situation, the Taoiseach has not even had a discussion with his counterparts at a summit on Ireland's disastrous situation. In fact, he...

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Does the Taoiseach know that European Commission President Barroso, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the European Council President are to meet tomorrow, not to discuss the awful situation pressing down upon the Irish people-----

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: -----but to discuss the Greek situation? As the Taoiseach stated, Greece and Portugal are at the top of the EU's conversation. Why is Ireland not at the top? The Taoiseach should explain that to the House.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Obviously, the Taoiseach knows nothing about any of the questions I asked, as he did not answer any of them.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: I was not decrying the Greeks. I was praising them. Something that hurt me - I am sure it hurt every Irish citizen - was how some protestors at a demonstration in Greece had placards-----

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: -----that read, "We are not the Irish".

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Therein lies the core of it. A fellow countyman of the Taoiseach's, Mr. John Healy, wrote a book many eons ago, entitled No One Shouted Stop. He was referring to the scourge of emigration, but he could have been talking about this Government. We know what Fianna Fáil did, but it is not in government. Rather, the Taoiseach is in government. Some 500,000 people are unemployed.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: On the way to the House this morning, I saw mile-long lines of people queuing for the dole. The jobs stimulus does not appear to be a serious investment plan on the Government's radar. What I am saying is simple - the Taoiseach needs to say "Stop". He needs to catch the attention of the senior partners in the two-tiered EU and tell them that this debt, as the Minister for Finance stated,...

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: We should tell those at the upper echelons of the European Union that this is the case. We must get their attention and angry with them. The laughing hyenas behind them should be turned loose on those who have a responsibility-----

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: The Government has a responsibility to stand up for Irish interests, but it is not doing so.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach do this? Will he go and say, "Stop"?

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Is ceist shimplí é.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: The Government would give it all away. It would give it to the bankers.

Order of Business (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Dúirt an Taoiseach uair éigin ó shin go mbeadh díospóireacht faoi chúrsaí Gaeilge.

Order of Business (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Níor chuala an Taoiseach mé. Bhí mé ag rá go ndúirt sé, cúpla seachtain ó shin, go mbeidh díospóireacht ann faoi chúrsaí Gaeilge. Níl sé ann fós. An bhfuil uair agat?

Order of Business (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Déanfaimid sin ach nuair a dúirt an Taoiseach sin faoin Ghaeilge bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge ar siúl; tuigeann sé an méid atá le rá agam. Ní maith an rud é nach raibh seans ann ó shin go dtí seo agus nach bhfuil rud ar bith socraithe ag an Rialtas go fóill.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistant whole time equivalent posts funded by him in the school year 2009-10 and also the same figures for 2010-11; the savings if any of the reduction in WTE posts between these two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10189/11]

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 237: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the 2011 housing aid for older people, housing adaption grants and mobility aid grants scheme in Louth County Council was suspended on 1 April 2011; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that this is creating great hardship for elderly, ill...