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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates Eligibility (14 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: 688. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for the purposes of application for primary medical certificates, and the process under which persons may appeal a decision made to refuse same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22842/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates Eligibility (14 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider an application for primary medical certificate in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Louth; if he will outline the reason for refusal of same; if there is recourse for these persons to appeal the decision in view of the medical conditions and associated mobility issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22843/13]

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: The test for good hospital services is that patients get the best treatment possible and they and their families have confident that this is the case. It is clear at the moment, despite the excellent work being done by health professionals and health workers, that this is not the case for many people. Yesterday's reports on hospitals groups and the framework for smaller hospitals have been...

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: It may be the report has potential, we must wait and see. We must factor in the lack of confidence in the Minister and the fact he has broken promise after promise. He entered office promising to restore emergency services to Roscommon General Hospital and he broke that and other promises. It is deplorable, as it is for the family involved, that a patient should spend a night on a trolley....

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: I know what happened there. It was a systems failure and there is no evidence it will be corrected by those proposals.

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: I know exactly what went on and Deputy Shatter, as Minister for Justice and Equality, would not rectify it.

Order of Business (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: I note reports of progress in negotiations between the unions and the Government under the auspices of the Labour Relations Commission. Some media reports indicate the Government has dropped some of the more anti-family and anti-women aspects that led to the defeat of the proposed Croke Park II deal. Does the Government intend to introduce legislation to cut the pay of public sector workers...

Order of Business (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: As I understand-----

Order of Business (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: I do wish the Government well, but is the legislation going ahead?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Capital Investment Programme (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: 57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide specific details of the strategic investments his Department plans to make under the Tourism Capital Investment Programme; if he will outline the way the €19m will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22854/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Employment Rights Issues (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that employment in the accommodation and food services sector showed an increase in 2012 and that 123,100 people now work in the industry, if he accepts that decent pay and working conditions are vital if the sector is to develop, and that to date this has not been the case; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigration Data (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: 95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the report by the National Youth Council of Ireland which indicates that 300,000 persons have emigrated in the past four years, if he will outline his strategy for dealing with the Irish diaspora. [23149/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (15 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: 278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 13 March 2013, when the sports capital fund stream of funding will be open for applicants in 2013; and whether a club (details supplied) will be entitled to apply [23128/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Travel (16 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: 58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in view of the his recent visit to Turkey, he believes that the PKK’s historic ceasefire will have a positive impact on the political and security environment of that country, and create conditions for meaningful dialogue between the two sides. [23238/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recent decision by the UN Security Council to adopt Resolution 2099, which extends the peacekeeping mandate in Western Sahara MINURSO for one more year and if he believes there should be a human rights monitoring and a reporting element for MINURSO.; and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Narrow Water Bridge: Discussion (16 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: I commend the chambers of commerce and councils involved in this project, particularly the individuals who came up with the idea and kept faith with it. Fair play to them. This is how things work. Notionally, the final decision on the project rests with the northern Minister of Finance and Personnel, Mr. Sammy Wilson. One needs to give careful consideration to whether it would be of...

Leaders' Questions (21 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: In 2010 the then Minister for Defence, Deputy Willie O'Dea, was forced to resign. The Minister for Justice and Equality, then Fine Gael spokesperson on justice, said:What Minister O'Dea admitted yesterday is that he willingly and publicly discussed, for his own electoral gain, confidential information furnished to him by a member of An Garda Síochána. Such conduct is entirely...

Leaders' Questions (21 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: I do not think there can be any argument about the means used to put this information out. The question is should a Minister use information against a political opponent which has been given to him or her by a member of An Garda Síochána. That is the nub of the question. The way in which the whistleblowers in this case were dealt with was completely unsatisfactory. There has...

Leaders' Questions (21 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: That is not what I asked. I know all that.

Leaders' Questions (21 May 2013)

Gerry Adams: I am asking the Taoiseach.