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Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 238: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons employed in local authorities in County Louth in each of the years 2007 to 2010 and to date in 2011. [10194/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Reports: Health Service Reports (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the 27 recommendations made by a report into the circumstances pertaining to the death of a person (details supplied) and if he will account for all progress made into the implementation of each of these 27 recommendations. [10190/11]

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: I rith fheachtas an toghcháin bhí daoine ag lorg ceannaireacht. Nuair a tháinig Páirtí an Lucht Oibre agus Fine Gael le chéile, bhí a lán daoine dóchasach, ach níl siad dóchasach anois. The Taoiseach asked whether we were seeking any outstanding information. Yes: where are the jobs? That is information we would like to have, because that is what many citizens are asking,...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Deputy Pearse Doherty acknowledged yesterday - the Minister for Finance was not here for most of his remarks - that there are positive elements in the Taoiseach's proposals. There are some modest - that is the Minister's description, not mine - common sense small elements to them. The Taoiseach mentioned County Louth. This initiative has more to do with bringing forward a plan for a town...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: It is because the Government is committed at every turn-----

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: -----to putting more money into bad banks and into big bankers' pensions.

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: The crux of the problem is that Government is also at every point committed to supporting the IMF-EU plan. The Taoiseach describes the initiative as a modest proposal, there is much to be modest about. It reminds me very much of Jonathan Swift's modest proposal in that in this case the solution could be worse than the problem. I put it to the Taoiseach again, and I do it not for the sake of...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: That cannot be done unless money is put into in and that is not possible when money is being given to these toxic banks. Will Taoiseach introduce a change of plan? People are looking for a change of direction. This reads of Fianna Fáil-----

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: -----and the Greens. People want a change of direction. Will the Taoiseach come forward with a jobs plan which is about stimulating the economy and doing the things which I think he would like to do but he cannot do under this current strategy?

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Do I not have the facility to respond?

Order of Business (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: On the issue of Oireachtas committees, dúirt an Taoiseach an tseachtain seo chaite go mbunófaí na coistí ach ní léir go fóill cén uair a dhéanfar sin. Will the Taoiseach clarify when the Oireachtas committees will be established?

Order of Business (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach said the same last week.

Ministerial Staff (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the number of political advisors working in his Department; and the total cost of same. [8371/11]

Ministerial Staff (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Dúirt an Taoiseach i rith fheachtas an olltoghcháin go mbeadh an Rialtas oscailte, le polasaithe macánta. B'shin fhocal a bhí go mór i mbéal an Taoisigh. I appreciate that he is trying to introduce new procedures. In the interests of transparency, can he tell us what the appointment procedures are for political advisers? He said their salaries were being finalised. However, could...

Ministerial Staff (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: I appreciate, acknowledge and commend the work done by officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Taoiseach's Department. Other Departments under successive Governments have also had to deal with the Six Counties. However, as someone who comes from there, with many others in the State, I find it offensive that this matter comes within the remit of the Department of...

Church-State Dialogue (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will continue the dialogue with churches and other faith communities begun by his predecessors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8373/11]

Church-State Dialogue (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: It is important to acknowledge the very good work that has been and continues to be done by churches and faith communities. The mark of a real republic, when we get one, will be to have eradicated sectarianism and to have tolerance and full civil and religious rights. In the course of those discussions, some legacy issues still need to be resolved. In discussions with the Catholic Church,...

Official Engagements (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Before I ask my question perhaps the Ceann Comhairle will give me some guidance. There are a number of questions lumped together and I want to have a sense of what happens when that is the case because these questions are widely diverse. What time is allowed to the Deputy who tables the question?

Official Engagements (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for that advice. This is something the Taoiseach should consider, in the interests of trying to arrive at clarity and information. Sometimes it is difficult when totally different questions are grouped together. The national reform programme contains no specific 2020 poverty reduction targets. Why is there no reference to that? It repeats the existing targets...

Official Engagements (11 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: I am dealing with the question put to the Taoiseach to name the planned official trips he will undertake between now and the summer recess.