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Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: The level of funding set aside for such children in this State, who receive just one implant, continues to be inadequate. A single implant costs between €18,000 and €20,000. Internationally, it is considered best practice to implant both ears. The HSE accepts this. The provision of just one implant impairs the child's ability to distinguish where noises are coming from and...

Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach for that answer. I have used Billy's case to personalise and humanise the issue. He has received a single cochlear implant. The point I am trying to make is that the doctors and the HSE are saying that best practice for children involves giving them two implants. The HSE estimates that the cost of doing this would be no more than €4 million, which is not an...

Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Go raibh maith agat.

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Tá dhá cheist agam ar an Taoiseach faoi reachtaíocht atá forógraithe. Given the leak of the report - we must wait and see whether it is a real report or not - and the fact that the Halappanavar family will be put through another trauma, could the Taoiseach tell us when legislation for the X case will be brought forward by the Government given that on two occasions,...

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: An ceist eile.

European Council: Statements (13 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: I am sharing time with Deputy Seán Crowe. Last June, the Taoiseach returned to the Dáil and announced a “seismic shift” and “a game changer” which would separate bank debt from sovereign debt. Last week, in a total contradiction, the Government turned €28 billion of that bad bank debt into a sovereign debt, which the citizens of this State will...

European Council: Statements (13 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: The headline news from this summit is that for the first time in 56 years the EU has agreed to a budget decrease. It appears that Mr. Cameron got an agreement that will be good for him for the next election, but who knows? A €34 billion cut has been agreed. Sinn Féin supports cuts to wasteful spending. However, one big potential saving that has not been touched is the waste...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Inspections (13 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of allegations against foster carers currently being investigated by the Health Information and Quality Authority; the number of foster carers these allegations have been made against that have not been Garda vetted; the number of allegations of this nature that have been investigated by HIQA each year since its establishment; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Planning (13 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline when the Health Service Executive regional service plan for the north east will be published [7661/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (13 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the way additional funds recently announced for the Louth Meath hospital group will be spent; and if he will provide a detailed breakdown of same [7662/13]

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: The Acting Chairman, Deputy Durkan, being a wise man, and the Minister for Finance will know that the promissory note agreement represents a complete U-turn by the Government. We were told by the Tánaiste and Taoiseach recently, when they had moved quietly to the Sinn Féin position, that the Government wanted to separate bad bank debt from sovereign debt. Instead, it has replaced...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (14 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health in view of promised restoration of the pre-September 2012 level of funding for home help hours, if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to arrange an assessment/reassessment of the home help hours provision for all those whose hours were cut in the last quarter of 2012 with a view to restoring the withdrawn hours to the greatest number of people...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health when the 477 posts allocated for mental health services in the Health Service Executive's 2013 National Service Plan will be advertised; the timeframe for the recruitment of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7448/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (14 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown by country of the number of holiday visas applied for to visit here in 2012; and the number that were successful. [7801/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (14 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that in Europe and the USA bilateral implantation of cochlear implants is standard practice; if it is the case that for resource reasons in this State the standard practice is to use only one cochlear implant; if he will give consideration to changing this practice and move towards bilateral implantation; his views on whether deafness can allow...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. It is worth noting that Fianna Fáil voted with the Government on the very issue about which it is now protesting-----

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: I want to deal with the issue of the negotiations for the successor to the Croke Park agreement. I took note that the Government gave notice of compulsory redundancies in the public sector at the beginning of those negotiations and then the Taoiseach gave notice that he would legislate for pay cuts. He must know this is not the way to engage in good faith. Lower and middle income public...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: -----and this Government still pays the pay cap for its special advisers. Why is the Government disproportionately targeting front-line workers for more cuts when those workers have already contributed so much? Will the Taoiseach now move to tackle the gold plated pensions and high pay still being enjoyed by the current Taoiseach and former taoisigh, Ministers, officeholders, special...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach talked about fairness but there is very little that is fair about how this Government does its business. There is nothing fair about those in the upper echelons of the public service having such big salaries while all the time those in the lower echelons are subjected to cuts to pay and to these negotiations where the Government has already set out its objective - if it does...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach is not paying for that.