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Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach says the Government has scrapped the mobility allowance scheme and the motorised transport grants scheme because they are illegal. Why are they illegal? They are illegal because they discriminate against a section of citizens who are entitled to these schemes but are denied access to them and have been denied access to them by successive Governments. Fianna Fáil was in...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: The way to bring these schemes into compliance with the law and give citizens with disabilities their entitlements, where appropriate, is to do what the Ombudsman recommended. The Department has stated, contrary to what the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, said on radio this morning, that these costs cannot be borne. That is the nub of the matter. This was done without notice...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: A nugget emerges in the Taoiseach's answer. The words "we simply cannot afford" are the core of the issue. The knowledge that the schemes were illegal has been around for 13 years. The simple thing is to change the scheme to make it legal. Instead, the Government scraps it. Already this morning, I have had calls from our Drogheda office to say that citizens who are liable to be on these...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: I ask the Taoiseach to reflect on what has been said and the fact that there was no notice to the Dáil. We were here all day yesterday but there was not a whimper of this. There was no notice to recipients or disability groups. We are not asking the Taoiseach to have a revolution. We are asking him simply to deal with the ombudsman's recommendation and do what should have been done a...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Bring in a wealth tax.

Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Tá dhá cheist agam ar an Taoiseach, an chéad cheann faoi reachtaíocht atá forógraithe. There is promised legislation to amend the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009. This was revealed during the December troika review when the troika said the Government was committed to bringing forward legislation to allow the banks to repossess homes. Will this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of clerical officers across the public service that are women. [10441/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has included gender parity for the board membership as part of his reforming agenda of the State agency sector. [10442/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance the recent contacts he had had with Mario Draghi, President of the ECB. [2376/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance the recent contacts he has had with European Commissioner Ollie Rehn. [2375/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Schemes (27 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reasons an insulation grant was refused by Sustainable Energy Ireland to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [10550/13]

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (28 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance if it his intention to sell his stake in AIB and Bank of Ireland to the private market or to recapitalise retrospectively through the ESM. [10563/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (28 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the delay in the publication of the Mercer Report on bankers’ salaries; the total cost to date of the report; and the estimated final cost. [10562/13]

Other Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (5 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made in guaranteeing the young people who are unemployed here a job or training within three months as proposed under the youth guarantee that she has been discussing with Social Protection Ministers from other EU States. [11377/13]

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: Easter is at the end of this month and we are only three years away-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: We are only three years away from the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, not the 1916 Christmas rising, and yet the future of the last headquarters of the 1916 leaders in Moore Street, which is an iconic place in our history, is uncertain and still under threat from developers. The Taoiseach is familiar with this part of the capital, with this historic quarter. He has rightly described it...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: The sites the Taoiseach mentioned, such as the GPO or the military archives, are not under any threat. He knows his history as well as I do. When the British had an empire, brave men and women went out and proclaimed a republic. After days of fighting, they withdrew from the GPO and made their way into Moore Street. I cannot think of anywhere else in the world, whatever the complexion of...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: As we all have.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with European leaders since the EU summit on the 22 November 2012. [53845/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach the contacts he had with Chancellor Merkel since the December 2012 EU summit. [2331/13]