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Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach totally ignored the thrust of my question. The fact is that for 18 months the Minister refused to give information to Teachtaí Dála who raised legitimate detailed questions about expenditure on this particular project. The Taoiseach said he is taking responsibility for this policy so I put my last question to him again. Is it not time this Minister went? Sinn...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin saw to it that the Executive invested-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: As the Taoiseach knows, this is a Trojan horse for privatisation. There will not be one deor uisce, not one tear of water, going into anyone's water taps from the €86 million that is being given to these consultants, and the Taoiseach knows that. It is coming at a time when the Taoiseach is taking money from citizens and from front-line services. For example, the Government gives...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: I have just one last point, if I may. The Local Government Audit Service report of 2011 on spending by Dublin City Council raised serious questions about the spending of almost €100 million of public money on the Poolbeg incinerator project. Under whom?

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: It was on John Tierney's watch. Surely, as he said he is taking responsibility for this policy, it is time for the Taoiseach to face up to the failure upon failure, debacle upon debacle. The Taoiseach can give me a direct answer, if he would. Will he ask the Minister to resign over this issue of refusing to give the Dáil the information which we deserve to have?

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: Tá cúpla ceist agam, ceann amháin faoi chlár an Rialtais agus ceann eile faoin Tuaisceart. The Government committed to appointing an independent international expert commission to review the case for and cost of undergrounding all or part of the Meath-Tyrone 400 kV power link. To date, there has been no such independent review. When will the Government allow this?...

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: Great work.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Emigration Data (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 288. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his strategy to tackle emigration. [55211/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Emigration Data (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 289. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his strategy to enable Irish emigrants to return to Ireland. [55212/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Emigration Data (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has examined the report Irish Emigration in an Age of Austerity produced by UCC’s EMIGRE Project earlier this year. [55214/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Emigration Data (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has met the authors of the report Irish Emigration in an Age of Austerity produced by UCC’s EMIGRE Project to discuss its findings. [55215/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Meetings (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the engagements he or his Department has had with Irish emigrants or their representatives since he took office. [55213/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 333. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the report Youth Unemployment in Ireland, the Forgotten Generation by National Youth Council of Ireland. [55216/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 334. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has met with the authors of the report Youth Unemployment in Ireland, the Forgotten Generation by National Youth Council of Ireland to discuss its findings. [55217/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 418. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to commemorate the centenary of the founding of Cumann na mBan which occurs in April 2014. [55249/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 746. To ask the Minister for Health when Directive 2011/24/EU of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients' rights in cross-border health care will be fully transposed into Irish law [55240/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 838. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will receive an appointment in Waterford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1173/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 840. To ask the Minister for Health the time at which the first call was received in reference to a stabbing incident in Drogheda at Rathmullan Park on New Years Day; the number of subsequent calls that were received and the time of same; the location from which the ambulance was despatched to deal with this incident; the ambulances that were available in the north east region on New Years...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 877. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the unsatisfactory situation on Inishturk Island, County Mayo where on occasions when the full-time public health nurse is absent residents of the island are not provided with a locum nurse (details supplied); in view of the fact that an absence of a locum nurse is contrary to his policy the action he will take to address...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility (15 Jan 2014)

Gerry Adams: 879. To ask the Minister for Health in recognition of the fact that there are not enough nursing home beds available to meet the needs of the elderly in the Louth-Meath area; the reason the fair deal scheme is not transferable for long term or temporary care in the North when patients can be funded for respite care in facilities in the North; the reason it became practice not to fund long...