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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he raised with Prime Minister Cameron the Government’s concern at efforts by Unionist parties to undermine the North’s Parades Commission. [35209/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: I join the Taoiseach in thanking Speaker Willie Hay for the work he has done. I wish him and his wife well and hope that his health will improve. He worked with the Ceann Comhairle in setting up the North-South Parliamentary Forum. He was very fair in a difficult job in the Chamber. He was also very open to meeting one on the side to give advice on issues. He has been a friend of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: It is a bit difficult to know where to start.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: Let me start on a positive. It is my very strong view that all of these issues can be worked out with political will. It is my strong view that, whatever about the delays, convolutions and distractions, all of these matters will be worked out. The Taoiseach raised the question of whether I was placing restrictions on the Deputy First Minister. Sinn Féin is an Irish republican party....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: That is exactly the truth of it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: Hold on. Bear with me.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: I understand.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin agreed with the Haass proposals, even though they stretch us and those we represent, because we know that, in the longer run, we need harmony, tolerance and respect and we must appreciate that orange is one of our national colours. Our national flag has orange in it. It is not just green. Any unity of the people of this island has to include the unity of orange with the rest...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: Deputy Martin should support it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: How would Deputy Martin vote?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: That is the Tory party cuts, as the Deputy is aware.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: The Deputy knows that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: The Deputy does not know enough about it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: There is no bill of rights here either.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: On the provision for mental health services, the programme for Government commits to ensure early access to more appropriate services for adults and children and improved integration with primary care services. In respect of A Vision for Change, in the programme for Government, the Government commits to ring-fence €35 million from within the health budget to develop the mental health...
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: That is okay.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: I am talking about the issue of the housing crisis and the Government's commitment to a staged purchase scheme to increase the stock of social housing. In February 2013, the homelessness policy statement committed to eradicating long-term homelessness by 2016. Could the Taoiseach tell us what is the timeline for acquiring the necessary housing stock? Could he give us an update on the...
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: Does the Taoiseach know when it will come before the Dáil?
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: 99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will join other Dáil Éireann leaders in condemning the Israeli Government’s theft of Palestinian land. [35217/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Commemorative Events (7 Oct 2014)
Gerry Adams: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it his intention to invite members of the British royal family to the State commemoration of the 100th centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916. [35675/14]