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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Consultation Process (2 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance the consultations he will hold, here and with other EU countries and institutions and any others, before announcing the budget. [31873/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Promissory Note Issues (2 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered freezing the issuing internationally of the converted promissory notes, currently held at the Central Bank, pending an investigation into the handing of these notes to Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide, with a view to destroying the bonds if it is found that the promissory notes were issued on the basis of fraudulent and misleading...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: European Parliament Elections (2 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the boundaries for the forthcoming European elections will be confirmed following the accession of Croatia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31620/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Prosecutions (2 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 572. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received reports from An Garda Síochána or the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in relation to the investigation into the banking collapse; if he is satisfied with the progress of the investigations; if there are sufficient resources to progress the investigations; if the investigation teams have in their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Waterford is on the waiting list for a gastric bypass; the steps being taken to progress their health situation; the length of time they will be expected to wait for this procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31969/13]

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: In budget 2013, the Government signalled that €750 million would be cut from health spending this year and that medical card entitlements would be targeted. During the Easter recess in April, the HSE announced that further restrictions on medical cards were being introduced. This followed on from legislation that lowered the income threshold for medical card qualification among...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: This is a part of the Government's austerity policy. Parents have needed to cope with such situations. Does the Minister accept that, in taking medical cards from thousands of families, the Government is inflicting financial hardship and poorer health prospects on people who are already struggling? Does he accept that this additional cut is especially severe for families like the one to...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: That sounds wonderful, but it does not reflect the reality of life for citizens like the one I mentioned. I will provide another example. I received a letter seeking support for a man in County Galway. It reads:Jimmy is in general good health, but he requires the constant presence of a responsible adult at all times for safety issues as he is registered blind and very deaf. His children...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: There are 40,000 such cases.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: It does not.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: There are thousands of them.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: This proposal is characteristic of the way in which the Government is doing its business. The guillotine has been used in more than 50% of Bills before the House and it is proposed to use it today with three other Bills. The Government must show some respect for the process of debate and the right of Opposition and other Deputies to table amendments. I join Deputies in extending...

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: I will not take as long as the leader of Fianna Fáil, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but I want to make a point. I was watching the faces of some of the newly arrived Deputies during that whole brouhaha-----

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: -----including me.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: The fact is that this shows the character of this Government. The guillotine has been used over 50% of the time in the House. This is particular legislation which is about facilitating the banks to repossess homes.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: Let us consider the Government's attitude on this and then, for example, let us consider the failure of the Government to sign up for the Council of Europe Convention on the preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: Why does the Government refuse to do that? It is because the Minister for Justice and Equality says it would interfere with a person's property rights.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: They are two examples. A battered woman is put out of her own home because the Government has said that to take action would interfere with the abuser's property rights, yet here it is rushing through legislation to facilitate the banks to repossess homes without any care at all for the property rights of the mortgage holder.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: I have made my point. I had intended to bring attention to the Chief Whip's deploring of the Government's lack of good record on Dáil reform.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: He is the Minister of State who has the responsibility to bring together the committee that is charged with that responsibility. Consequently, I simply register a protest here on behalf of Sinn Féin.