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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: I welcome the Taoiseach's remarks about the blockade of Gaza. We discussed this issue to some degree last week. I was pleased that the Taoiseach agreed to raise the EU heads of mission report on Jerusalem with our European partners. I hope the Government can use this State's term as holder of the EU Presidency as a vehicle to encourage people in the region to embrace a peace process. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: I will deal with Teachta Martin's really misinformed and deliberate misrepresentation of what is happening in the North at some other time. I welcome the Taoiseach's efforts to refocus the British Government on the peace process and on what needs to be done in the North. I especially welcome the convening of a group of senior civil servants who will be charged with knuckling down and...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: The programme for Government contains commitments to enhance trust between local communities and the gardaí, and also through the policing partnerships, to give greater priority to community policing and higher Garda visibility in local neighbourhoods. What is the position on that issue? The Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, and I were in St. Patrick's GAA Club in Lordship, of which...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: I did.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: Go raibh maith agat.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (12 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has put in place to tackle educational disadvantage for deaf children. [12874/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant (12 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the processing of the motorised transport grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; in view of the fact that this application is currently under an appeal the impact the recent Government decision will have on the processing of this appeal. [12498/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (detail supplied). [12853/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Expenditure (12 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the management consultants currently employed by the Health Service Executive; and the fees paid to each [12907/13]

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: I remind Fianna Fáil and the Government parties that there would not be a compulsion to hold by-elections within six months if Deputy Pearse Doherty had not gone to court to bring this about. The Taoiseach has been in government for two years and the number of families in mortgage arrears has almost doubled. Contrary to what he said, the Government has taken a softly, softly attitude...

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: I have a little question for the Taoiseach. Who said, "Fianna Fáil's proposal, now endorsed by the Labour Party, to introduce by 2014 an annual recurring residential property tax on the family home, is unfair"?

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach said it. Do not give us the guff about the North. People pay rates in the North-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. The fact is Deputies know that what I am saying is accurate. People in the North pay rates for which they receive services which are denied to householders in this state. I refer to refuse collections, water services, prescriptions and free schoolbooks for their children. We have in this state perhaps the largest potholes in the western world.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: It was the Taoiseach who said this property tax on the family home was unfair. Does he still accept that it is an unfair tax? If he is changing tack now, explicitly that means he is admitting failure thus far. Does he accept that his hands-off approach to the banks has failed miserably?

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: Like the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: We need to deal with the substance of these issues. For a man from County Mayo, to even suggest eviction from or repossession of a family home - even if the number is small - would be justifiable is totally and absolutely reprehensible. Rather than jibing at us, I ask the Taoiseach to deal with the substance. One in four mortgage holders is in distress. People have had tax upon tax...

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance must put the entire issue of a family's right to a home on a legislative footing. The assurance that the Government has not yet given must be provided now. The Taoiseach should not wait until the afternoon. He should stand up and clearly state there will be no forced repossessions of family homes.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach should not let it happen again on his watch.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: We have a very clear perspective of what is required and the Government should have one, too.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: People have a right to a family home.