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Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: That is misleading the Dáil.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: In every part of the State citizens are discussing this legislation at length, except in this institution, which is responsible for bringing in the legislation. The Taoiseach offered several reasons for rushing it through. He said that we had to get our business done because this had to go to the Seanad. It is up to this Chamber to order our own business. The Taoiseach does not even want...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Tánaiste and the Taoiseach seem to have a difference of opinion on comments made by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, that the Government will not pay the €3.1 billion promissory note due on 31 March. The Government seems to have developed a habit of sending the wrong or mixed messages to its masters in the European Union. Sinn...

Topical Issue Debate: Report on Murder of Pat Finucane (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I wish to commend the family of Pat Finucane on their courage and diligence in demanding a public inquiry into his killing. I want to be very mindful of all those who have died or been injured as a result of the conflict, regardless of who the perpetrators were. The de Silva review into Pat Finucane's death in February 1989 concludes that there was no overarching state conspiracy but accepts...

Topical Issue Debate: Report on Murder of Pat Finucane (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: No more than anybody else here, I have not read the full report. However, I was briefed on it by Paul Maskey, one of our MPs, who went to London and had prepublication notice of the report. Let us not mess about with this. I commend to the Taoiseach and to every Teachta Dála here the book written by Frank Kitson which deals with counterinsurgency operations in some detail. To...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Ask Deputy Róisín Shortall about that.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: What are you about?

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Minister has just left, but I wanted to tell him that the reason Deputy Doherty was not around was that he buried his father over the summer. I ask the Minister's colleagues to please convey that information to him.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I was just listening to the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, late of Sinn Féin, Official Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin - The Workers' Party, The Workers' Party, New Agenda, Democratic Left and now the Labour Party. He and his party leader have destroyed every party they were ever part of, with the exception of Sinn Féin. That is a warning for the Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Tonight, families are sitting back to count and try to calculate how much they have. They are trying to work out which bills they can pay and which bills they cannot pay. They are looking at their grocery bills and wondering what they can and cannot afford. The Government does not care. It has done its calculations and it knows how much money it is picking from the pockets of its...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The budget does not include any ideas on how to-----

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: -----reduce unemployment or get the economy off the ropes.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Deputies opposite do not want to hear. I ask them to listen so they might learn something.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: This punitive and cruel budget will increase financial hardship and poverty for tens of thousands of families. Child benefit is a universal payment that is made to the children of the State. The men and women of 1916, including the man who founded the Labour Party, of whom it has been said that when he went into the GPO, the Labour Party never came out again, signed up-----

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: -----to a Proclamation that said the Republic would cherish "all the children of the nation equally". The Democratic Programme of the First Dáil, which was drafted by Thomas Johnson, who was another leader of the Labour Party, said "it shall be the first duty of the Government of the Republic to make provision for the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of the children, to secure...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: -----to include two locations in his constituency and has closed public nursing home beds while engaged in the business of private nursing home industry. What about the election pledge that the Minister, Deputy Quinn, gave to students? That is the kind of stroke politics that the Fianna Fáil leadership was renowned for.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: When the former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, drew attention to a scandal involving the Minister for Health, the Labour Party leadership looked the other way. I hope the Ministers of State who are in attendance do not mind me raising the big issue of the North, the peace process and the need to implement the Good Friday Agreement fully. Most of the Government's commentary on this...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Tánaiste today expressed his admiration for David Cameron's "determination to get to the truth" about Pat Finucane. I remind the House that the de Silva report was about stopping the Finucane family from getting the truth. The members of the family made that plain today. This Government's cynical attitude towards the promises it made and towards its own electorate - if we forget...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: They should take the patriotic choice, which is to take a walk - go - in the interests of the people.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement that Irish Bank Resolution Corporation is to sue a company (details supplied) for actions it took during its time as auditors of the bank in advance of its nationalisation, if he will detail if he was consulted in advance of this decision being made. [55914/12]