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- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has stated this is a serious issue and that it is being dealt with seriously by the Minister for Health.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: He is the person who appointed the head of a private consultancy firm that advocates the privatisation of health services as chairman of a public health body. Therefore, I do not believe the Taoiseach's answer is adequate, nor do I believe the answer on the missing files is adequate. The Ombudsman has said that what happened to the files is something his office has not been able to...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: He did not write to me; the matter was raised at the committee.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach said he was conducting a review.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: I have two questions for the Taoiseach. The first is about the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014. The Taoiseach knows that the Minister for Health began drafting this legislation a year ago. Its aim of cutting the annual death toll from smoking-related diseases to 5,200 is commendable and deserves the support of people across society. I understand that the...
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: Bank debt.
- Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: Deireann an dán:Mise Éire, Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéara Mór mo ghlóir: Mé a rug Cú Chulainn cróga Mór mo náir: Mo chlann féin a dhíol a máthair.Mór mo náire anocht, a Aire, ag éisteacht le daoine anseo ag labhairt os comhair na ndaoine thuas in Áiléar na gCuairteoirí. Bhí...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: I listened to the Minister for Health announce on RTE Radio the restoration of some medical cards. It would have been far better if he had come into the Chamber to make the announcement and for it to be scrutinised, but that is not the way the Government works. I asked two weeks ago for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the appointment by him of the chairman of the west and...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: I am talking about the Department of Health, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: That is okay, but you should just let me say my piece, please, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: Thank you. Please try to avoid interrupting me if you do not mind.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: Okay. Go raibh maith agat.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: I think it is very interesting that when I ask the Taoiseach a question, you interrupt me.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: Did you not hear what I said, a Cheann Comhairle?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: I will repeat it again.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: Okay.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: I am talking about the record of the Minister for Health and I am also trying to get answers from the Taoiseach to questions which I have asked three weeks in a row. The Ombudsman says the files are missing. I raised this with the Taoiseach and while officials from his office got in touch with my office, I am still awaiting a reply on this matter. I welcome today's announcement and commend...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has still not answered my question on the missing files on discretionary medical cards or on the resignation of the former chair of the west and north-west hospitals group. Coming back to the issue of medical cards, that was a Cabinet decision. While we think the Minister should go, men, mainly, sat around a table, decided upon this and it is then explained away as an...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: I do not genuinely understand how, when the decision was made to remove medical cards, someone did not have the wit or the social conscience to ask what the likely consequences would be. Will the Taoiseach explain how this Cabinet decision was made? Similar decisions were made to take away allowances from people with disabilities, for example. There is all sorts of confusion about the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Gerry Adams: Why did he resign? It was the Minister who appointed him and defended him.