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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (13 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: 342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider a reduction in the imposed €28.20 being deducted with regard to recovery of social welfare overpayment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth, noting that the deduction imposed is causing undue financial hardship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20918/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (13 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: 637. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any alternative supports available to a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21398/14]

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: Go raibh maith agat. The Taoiseach's policy of withdrawing medical cards from sick citizens has no credibility whatsoever. Private Members' business this evening, which is a Sinn Féin motion on this issue, will give him an opportunity to change his tune and to rectify this crisis. There is also another crisis, a major housing crisis causing untold misery to thousands of citizens,...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: I interpret the Taoiseach's answer as "No" because I put forward a thought-out suggestion. The Taoiseach talks about people; this is about citizens. There is a difference between people and citizens: citizens have rights, including the right to a home. The Government is going to announce its construction strategy. Will the Taoiseach bring it in here so that we can discuss it and make...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: Okay, a Cheann Comhairle. Go raibh maith agat.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: I give a thumbnail sketch of a deep crisis of which I am sure the Taoiseach is aware. There is also another issue the Taoiseach did not answer. At the end of my contribution I asked about the citizens who are being forced into homelessness by rising rents in the private sector, yet the Government refuses to introduce fair rent control to tackle this. Thewww.daft.iewebsite has claimed that...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: Surely it is the duty of the State to defend citizens against rack-renting landlords by setting rents at fair levels and by providing homes for citizens. Where is the State's duty of care especially to children as the Taoiseach's sees it? What is the Government doing to tackle this crisis, which will only worsen in the time ahead?

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: I want to talk about now, today.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: We will talk about now, today.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: In Canada.

Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: I have two questions, one of which concerns the Government's timetable for its response to the Guerin report. The Taoiseach should have made it clear that the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality will be allowed to do its work. I am disappointed he did not do that in terms of the appearance by the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality. When does the...

Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: Go raibh maith agat.

Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: I inquired about new legislation to strengthen the operation of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, the Government's proposals for an independent Garda authority and details on the process of recruitment. I asked the Taoiseach about the terms of reference for the commission and he talked about the structure of it. They are two different issues.

Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: What about the terms of reference of the commission of investigation?

Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Domestic Violence Act 1996 to provide protection to applicants who have been prohibited from availing of social housing by virtue of the applicant’s legal or beneficial interest in the residence in which the applicant and respondent previously resided.This Bill has been drafted in response to an anomaly in...

Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: This week, the parents of seriously ill children launched a new statewide campaign, Our Children's Health, to protect their medical cards. In response, the Government's newly appointed Minister for Children and Youth affairs, Deputy Charles Flanagan, stated: "I would hope that everybody who needs a medical card in this country [mar dhea] would have one." He needs to do much more than hope....

Return to Writ: Dublin West - Introduction of New Member (27 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son Sinn Féin, ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an Teachta Ruth Coppinger. Le cuidiú Dé, beidh muid ábalta obair le chéile ar son mhuintir an Stáit agus an oileáin seo.

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: The Minister said that taking medical cards from very sick children is not acceptable but that this cannot be changed overnight. Why can it not be changed overnight? He also said that 93% of sick citizens had their cards restored but that was after an appeals system, and that very system has many families worn out. It is very disappointing to come in here and listen to the Minister give...

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: The Minister states the Government does not stand over the withdrawal of medical cards from very sick children, but that is what it does every day. Today there are children who will be refused the help, attention and treatment that they deserve as citizens. The Minister says he disagrees with Sinn Féin. Thanks be to God that he does. I am an Irish republican and citizens have rights....