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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: United Nations Conventions (6 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture, and establish effective National Preventative Mechanisms under the Protocol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5995/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duty Reliefs (6 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the excise rebate on diesel for haulage companies announced in Budget 2013 for haulage companies to include passenger transport companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6317/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (6 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is the case that the managed print services framework requires companies who wish to tender for work to have a €10 million turnover for each of the past three years; his views on whether this criteria would exclude more than 95% of the companies involved in this sector; whether he accepts that this is anti competitive and will...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Criteria (6 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the rental accommodation scheme involves long term leases and whether a landlord is entitled to terminate the agreement; the notices a landlord is required to give to a tenant; and under the RAS scheme is the local authority or the owner of the property the tenant's landlord. [6150/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Property Numbers (6 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of properties in counties Louth and Meath that are in the rental accommodation scheme. [6151/13]

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To put this in context, this is a promissory note inflicted on the Irish people by a Fianna Fáil Government to pay off the private debt of a toxic bank which is now under criminal investigation. Last June the Tánaiste said the Government had succeeded in separating sovereign debt from bad bank debt and that the legacy debt would be dealt with. What the Government has succeeded in...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Deputy McDonald says the Tánaiste did not answer any of my questions, but in fairness he did-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: -----because implicit in what he stated is that the bad debt is sovereign debt. For the record, Sinn Féin voted against legislation on the banking guarantee and the Tánaiste knows this.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: If the Tánaiste is discussing election promises one of the most infamous was Frankfurt's way or Labour's way-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: It clearly is Frankfurt's way. I well remember watching on television the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, stating as far as he was concerned this would not be paid and of course it is going to be paid. I think an indication of the difficulty of the once proud Labour Party, champion of the working class-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: -----is that it is using Fianna Fáil as a guarantor of the validity of its position. Imagine the Tánaiste is using Fianna Fáil to vindicate in some way what he is doing.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: The reason this should not be paid is because the people cannot afford to pay it. With regard to the Tánaiste's little metaphors about Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin is not taking on this debt and neither is the Tánaiste. The ordinary people who send us in here, those who do not even bother voting, those in all parts of the world because they cannot get a job here and the 500,000...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: What will this mean in their pockets and for those who cannot get health services and the young people who are unemployed? Will the Tánaiste tell us whether austerity will end on the back of this?

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: You said that.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: What have you renegotiated?

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: We have been ripped off.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battlegroups (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a progress report on negotiations on Ireland's possible participation in 2015 in the Nordic battle group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6124/13]

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Sular leanfaidh mé ar aghaidh le mo cheist ba mhaith liom mo chomhbhrón a thabhairt do teaghlach an oifigigh PSNI, Philippa Reynolds, a fuair bás oíche Dé Sathairn seo caite. I express our condolences to the family of the PSNI officer Philippa Reynolds, who was killed last Saturday night when her patrol car was hit by a stolen car. She was going about the business...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. We have met Magdalen laundry survivors during the years. As I am advised that Nora Connolly O'Brien, the daughter of James Connolly, raised the issue decades ago, it is not as if it was unknown. There are many issues which need to be dealt with. In a real republic these things should not happen, but they did. It is not the Taoiseach's fault and it did...