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

Gerry Adams: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if the Economic Management Council has any plans to meet representatives of the banks. [39072/13]

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

Gerry Adams: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions on which the Economic Management Council has met since the summer recess. [39081/13]

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

Gerry Adams: I agree with everything an Teachta Boyd Barrett said. It is a matter of deep concern that when people raise these issues, the Government seems to be oblivious to what is happening in communities, households and families. I do not understand why the Government kowtows to the bankers. I do not know why it cannot introduce an independent adjudication arrangement or service. That deals very...

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

Gerry Adams: Does the Taoiseach think that is okay? Will he give us the emigration figures?

Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: In the programme for Government the Taoiseach committed to establishing a process to ensure the Constitution meets the challenges of the 21st century, and this included abolishing the Seanad. He also committed to establishing a Constitutional Convention to consider comprehensive, constitutional reform. Sinn Féin put it to him that the convention should be asked to re-imagine Ireland...

Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: Why not refer the matter to the Constitutional Convention?

Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: Its purpose is to ensure that the Constitution meets the challenge of the 21st century.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: My party did advocate abolition.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that students from the Castlebellingham area who attend a school (details supplied) in County Louth are currently dropped by a service bus a mile from the school grounds; and if he will consider providing a special bus service that drops these students directly to the school; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an incident in respect of a child (details supplied) being formally suspended initially for three days subsequently followed by a ten day extension of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42260/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current guidelines set out by Department with regard to suspension of special needs children arising from alleged incidents within a school facility; the guidelines that exist for the withdrawal of school services for a special needs child; the alternative or supports that will be put in place by the Department during this period; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in detail the procedures in place to determine whether a child’s needs (details supplied) in County Louth are currently being met within the current school attended; if the current school cannot meet these needs, to whom does responsibility fall to provide alternative arrangements; if he will outline if such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 546. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment at the rheumatology clinic in Cork University Hospital; the average waiting time for patients in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 for this unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41993/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to progress the health situation of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; the number of other persons on the list for a gastric bypass; the length of time they will be expected to wait for this procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42221/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 622. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding provided to the Road Safety Authority and the way it is spent. [42350/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 623. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the initiatives the Road Safety Authority has taken yearly from 2011 and how much have they cost. [42351/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 624. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of cooperation that exists with the Road Safety agencies in Northern Ireland. [42352/13]

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: I agree with an Teachta Martin on the withdrawal of medical cards from citizens who need them. I invite every Deputy, including Fine Gael and Labour Deputies, to send the Taoiseach the list we have for him to review. I appeal to him to listen to what is being said. I especially appeal to him regarding the Government's austerity policy. He spoke about changed social circumstances. There...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: The mandate the Government received was not to do the things it is doing, it was to do them differently from the last Government. The people listening in to Leaders' Questions will be very disappointed and depressed. The Taoiseach says Commissioner Olli Rehn is happy. Is that how the Government judges its policy, if Olli Rehn says it is good? It gets a pat on the head. What about the...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach will have to explain that. We are anti-austerity.