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- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: I can see, after that answer, why they think the Taoiseach is special.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: I understand the negotiations are ongoing.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has a significant amount of honest leverage in that this debt is not payable. The cost for the people is crippling. The Taoiseach knows the story so I will not recite it to him but he knows the number of people who are broken from paying the bankers’ private debt. That is the price. Some times in negotiations, one has to be unreasonable-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: -----and have a clear objective in mind. Will the Taoiseach just acknowledge, contrary to the Government’s claims, that no deal on legacy debt was done in June, as it is clear to everyone else? Will he also make it clear that the debt is not payable? I do not know if the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, was speaking for the Government but last week he said the debt was not...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach should tell that to our partners in Europe today.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach the appointments he has made to State boards since he came into office; if he will outline the procedures for identifying persons for appointments to State boards. [41491/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form all appointments to State boards under his ambit since the Government took office; when the person was appointed; if the position entitles the holder to remuneration and if so the amount in each case; if the appointment was made in accordance with new procedures whereby Departments have to invite expressions of interest from the public...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach the number of chairs of State boards that have been appointed since the Government came into office; if there is a remuneration for the position and if so the amount of same; if the appointee was required to go before Oireachtas Committees to discuss what they have to offer to the particular board or committee to which they are being appointed. [45827/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: I actively encourage the Taoiseach on the issue of pursuing a gender balance. As he will be aware, the majority of citizens are women who are unrepresented in most public institutions. I am disappointed - if I heard the Taoiseach properly - that not all of the vacancies were advertised. He may be aware that earlier this year the Institute of Directors in Ireland carried out a survey among...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: That is hard to accept. The decision was not made in the middle of the night. The Government had clearly set out a different way of doing business. It had particularly talked about giving a new status in terms of authority and importance to the committees and because of public concern about the level of patronage in doling out these positions in the past made it clear that there would be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his Department since the beginning of the year. [44449/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he is satisfied with the operation of the Freedom of Information Act within his Department. [44450/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: I have not been in this House as long as other Deputies and it is a revelation to be here.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: Tuigim. The Taoiseach, who is the longest serving Deputy, spoke about the dysfunctional nature of this institution while he was in opposition. The purpose of the original freedom of information legislation was to provide citizens with three new legal rights, namely, to consult official records, to update and correct inaccurate personal information and to get reasons for public decisions...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: -----and extend its remit to other public bodies.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: The Ombudsman legislation and the Freedom of Information Act was to be extended to ensure that all bodies which receive significant public funds are covered. I share the concerns that have been expressed about the difficulty of getting information about the criteria for primary care centres. One would need to be Inspector Columbo to get to the bottom of the matter. It must be six weeks...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: Earlier this year Deputy Doherty introduced a Bill to bring NAMA within the remit of the Freedom of Information Act. His Bill would have removed the application fee and reverted to the fee structures set out in the original Act. Will the Taoiseach take that on board? It is impossible to get information about NAMA. This is a multi-billion euro agency which has to brought within the remit...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: What about the matter of fees?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: I spent yesterday at Stormont. I brought a delegation of farmers from County Louth up to meet the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and we had a good, solid meeting, with the IFA and the Ulster Farmers' Union in attendance. I have to say people everywhere were electrified by the fact that an Teachta Martin had discovered the North again. People were delighted to hear him...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (23 Oct 2012)
Gerry Adams: I want the Government to be doing more, but this Government is doing no more or less than the last Government did.