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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Governance (18 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if there have been changes in the management structure of the Health Service Executive in the north east region; if there has been a change in the management structure for the running of the Louth Meath Hospital Group; if the hospitals remain under the ambit of the area manager for the north east region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56816/12]

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Dáil will break tomorrow for the Christmas festivities and most of us will go back to warm homes and our families. We are the very lucky ones. For many citizens, this Christmas will be especially tough because of the Government's austerity policies. The ESRI's assessment of budget 2013 confirms that once again, the poorest have been hit hardest. It is not just those on the...

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: This is the Taoiseach's usual response when we raise a question about the banking sector. He says he cannot do anything about it but what he really means is that he will not do anything about it.

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Government rushed through the Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill at 11 p.m. last night. There were over 80 amendments but only one was taken.

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I am coming to that. Ná bí ag cur isteach orm arís. The point I am making is that there is one rule for the banking sector and another for citizens. This is the banks' Christmas present, while the family home tax is the Government's Christmas present. The Taoiseach says he cannot do anything about this but has he spoken to the public interest directors? I understand this...

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Has the Taoiseach asked these public interest directors who are there to protect the public interest and if not, why not?

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Does the Taoiseach intend to call the banks into the Economic Management Council or is it just a matter of, once again, wringing his hands and saying he can do nothing or, as I put it, is doing nothing about this sector?

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin also opposes the imposition of a guillotine on the Personal Insolvency Bill. We had an example this morning, which I raised with the Taoiseach earlier, but he dealt with it in a very unsatisfactory way. I understand that there could be as many as 245 amendments to be discussed today. Are they not important? This is the Government that said it would have a new way of doing...

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Yesterday the UK Commission on a Bill of Rights made its final report. The Taoiseach knows the work of this commission for the last two and a half years or so has been used by the British Government to block a bill of rights for the North, which is part of the Good Friday Agreement. Interestingly, the final report of the commission recognised the distinctive Northern Ireland bill of rights...

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To clarify, there is no bill of rights, although there should be. The British Government set up a commission to examine the concept of a bill of rights for the United Kingdom and used that as an excuse not to introduce a specific bill of rights for the North. Yesterday, ironically, the commission recognised "the distinctive Northern Ireland bill of rights process and its importance to the...

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I am disappointed the Taoiseach has not been briefed on this matter, which is a very important and key outstanding element of the Good Friday Agreement. As co-guarantor, what will the Government do to ensure the British Government keeps to this internationally recognised agreement, for which people North and South voted?

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I propose to share time with Deputy Seán Crowe.

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin profoundly disagrees with the Government's attitude to the European Union and its failure to stand up for Irish interests. Sinn Féin wants to see a Union of equals, a social Union embedded in citizens' rights as opposed to a two-tier Union with the larger states in the ascendancy and the Irish Government acquiescing to their wishes. Having said that, I wish the Taoiseach...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the estimated sum to be raised by the trebling of prescription charges for medical card patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57004/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cost of Drugs (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health his estimate of the savings to be made in 2013 from the agreement with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57005/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2013 (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be any cuts to funding or supports for primary or post primary schools in County Louth as a result of the spending cuts in Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57153/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an updated list, in tabular form, of the numbers of students in County Louth who have received from Student Universal Support Ireland payment of their third level grant or notification of when it is to be paid; the number of applications that have been received from County Louth in total; the number that have been rejected and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Service Plans (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Health Service Executive's service plan for 2013 to be made public [57151/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Service Plans (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Health Service Executive service for the HSE North east region will be published [57152/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (19 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 12 December 2012 if any of the reductions in staffing hours due to cuts in agency and overtime hours have been filled by the employment of full time contracts staff. [57166/12]