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Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach and his Labour Party colleagues know whether child benefit will be cut.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: If they are not to cut it, fair play. That would be a good thing for our children, but if they are there is still time to pull back from that. I ask the Taoiseach to do that and to look again at tax increases for those earning over €100,000 because they can afford cuts. The children of the State cannot afford cuts in their benefits.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the United States on the 12 and 13 October. [45696/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the politicians, business leaders or other organisations he met during his visit to the United States in October. [45697/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he has been in contact with US President Barack Obama in relation to his plans to attend the G8 summit in June 2013. [53788/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he has any plans to extend an invitation to US President Barack Obama for a State visit in view of his attendance at the G8 summit in Fermanagh in June 2013. [53846/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I very much welcome the interest the Taoiseach has taken in Irish-America and note the good work done during his recent visit to the United States. I visited the east coast of the United States and Canada last month on the back of super-storm Sandy. The Taoiseach will be aware of the devastation the storm wreaked, including in traditional Irish communities. Hundreds of homes were destroyed...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I agree with the Taoiseach that this is the time, at the dawn of a new Administration, to press the US Government on the undocumented. I commend the approach and appeal to the Taoiseach to make representation to the Secretary of State, whom we are advised will be leaving her position this year. I am sure the Taoiseach meets people who are variously called undocumented or illegals. They are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the process used in identifying a Chair for the Constitutional Convention. [47413/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach the date on which the first meeting of the Constitutional Convention is to be held. [49430/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his decision to appoint Mr. Tom Arnold as Chair of the Constitutional Convention. [49431/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with representatives of the Irish diaspora in relation to the forthcoming Constitutional Convention. [49614/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I agree the first meeting of the convention was an important day and contributions were informative and educational. The citizen delegates, along with the rest of us, were buoyed by the great privilege of being able to fulfil the patriotic role they were asked to complete. That is all to the good. However, the Government has put the convention on a very tight leash. Voting age and the...

Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: On 21 November, during the Order of Business, I asked the Taoiseach if he intended to introduce a Supplementary Estimate for the Department of Health and he refused to tell me; he refused to answer and dodged the question. Later on the same day, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform confirmed there would be a Supplementary Estimate for the Department of Health. That shows the...

Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The savings on generic drugs have failed to materialise. This is not a good way to do business and if the Taoiseach was sitting on the Opposition benches, he would say the same. I asked a straight, legitimate question and the Taoiseach did not answer. A couple of hours later, when Deputy McDonald asked another Minister the same question, he answered it. Why can the Oireachtas not be told...

Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Tá mé ag cur ceiste faoi reachtaíocht atá fógraithe. Can the Taoiseach confirm when the finance (local property tax) Bill will be published? This is the Bill that Fianna Fáil was committed to bringing in after it signed up with the troika and to which it now says it is opposed. When will it be published and when will it be debated in the Dáil?

Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The issue of abortion and the failure of successive Governments to legislate for the Supreme Court decision in the X case has come centre stage in recent weeks due to the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar in Galway University Hospital on 28 October. Her tragic death did not come to public attention until nearly three weeks later. By a remarkable coincidence, the report we are discussing...

Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: There followed a further referendum in 2002 which again tried to roll back the X case judgment-----

Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: -----and was again defeated. We have had 20 years of delay after delay, of reports and referendums and six Governments all dodging their responsibilities. I earnestly hope this will not be the seventh Government to dodge this issue. This means facing up to the reality highlighted by pregnant women who are confronted with life-threatening illnesses and have to cope with awful dilemmas....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (4 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff working in local authorities housing maintenance departments; and if he will provide a breakdown by local authority area. [54246/12]