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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (2 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give a commitment to include the €9 million in budget 2014 following on from the commitment given to provide a new 100-bed unit at St. Mary's/Boyne View Nursing Home in Drogheda to cater for residential care for our elderly citizens, in view of the removal of long-stay beds and respite beds from the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda. [41278/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (2 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 261. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a bilateral cochlear implant programme in 2014 [41326/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the communications and correspondence his Department has had with the European Commission in the past six months regarding State aid and tax paid by multinationals. [41513/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (3 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will use his powers under section 14 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 to direct NAMA to delay the sale of lands at St. Edmundsbury, County Dublin, so as to enable consideration of the State's interest in these lands in view of the way they might be used to contribute to the social and economic development of the State as per section...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to help put a long-term treatment plan in place in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41718/13]

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: Inniu, tá na dochtúirí sóisearacha imithe ar stailc agus mar gheall ar seo, tá cinntí i dtaobh na mílte daoine curtha ar ceal. The Government is in breach of the EU's working time directive. It is not alone in this. Deputy Martin was in breach of this EU law when he was Minister with responsibility for health, as was Mary Harney and as is the current...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: The directive stipulates that junior doctors must not work more than 48 hours a week on average. It also requires them to have a minimum of 11 hours rest between shifts. Instead, some of them work as many as 90 hours a week. That is not just bad for doctors because, today, 12,000 outpatient appointments and 3,000 operations have been cancelled. The working time directive is not a new EU...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: Mary Harney, as Minister with responsibility for health, did nothing, and the current Minister for Health is doing nothing.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that no doctor wants to put the well-being of patients at risk, but the failure of the Government to address this issue is putting patient safety at risk. Will the Taoiseach commit to implementing the working time directive fully to ensure junior doctors work safe hours? If so, when does he intend to do this?

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: He is not the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: I am delighted that the Taoiseach has our budget proposals. I would like him to study them. Feel free to plagiarise them. They are proof that there is a fair way to adjust the deficit.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: If the Government can do it with fairness, it can do it by taking the burden off lower and middle-income families. The crux of the strike involving the junior doctors is the issue of patient safety. It is at the core. What the IMO is saying is that there are no sanctions for those hospitals that are not complying. That is what the IMO wants. The Taoiseach is appealing to the IMO to go...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions on which the Cabinet sub-committee on mortgage arrears has met since the beginning for the summer recess. [39064/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach say that again, please?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: I was ready to rise on a point of order because I had been advised that the Taoiseach was going to take Questions Nos. 1 to 22, inclusive, together. Since they cover a range of issues, I was going to tell the Taoiseach that he needed to answer them in a more definitive way. When he stated that he would take Questions Nos. 1, 6, 16 and 19 together, I was pleased for him until I got his...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: We do not know that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: The banks have a veto.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: Why is the Taoiseach against independent adjudication?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions on which the Economic Management Council is scheduled to meet in advance of Budget 2014. [39070/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Economic Management Council last met representatives of the Irish banks. [39071/13]