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Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I ask the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to intervene.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I remind the House that I never said a word while the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste were speaking. I listened intently to what they had to say because, after all, they lead the Government. I expect the same courtesy. Against this backdrop, struggling families will hardly notice the extra €5 per month in child benefit which was announced and much lauded by the Tánaiste earlier...

Seanad Reform: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I move:That Dáil Éireann:acknowledges that the citizens of this State rejected the Government’s Constitutional amendment to abolish the Seanad through referendum vote in October 2013; recognises that all participants and parties involved in the referendum campaign were clear in agreeing that the Seanad in its current form is elitist, undemocratic and unacceptable; notes...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: 48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the provisions that are in place to address the issue of top-up payments currently being made by recipients of rent supplement to landlords (details supplied); her views on whether this practice is on the increase and many vulnerable persons already on a limited income are being forced into debt; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to revisit the 2013 review of rent supplement (details supplied); her plans to revisit the limits set, in particular for counties Louth and Meath; if she will provide a commitment that no further reductions will be made, nor any increases to personal contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39578/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: 50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current guidelines and discretionary remit available to community welfare officers and social welfare or Intreo personnel when dealing with persons seeking an increase in rent supplement in order to remain within their home, or those who are forced to seek alternative accommodations which are above the current ceilings (details supplied); and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to extend the current homelessness prevention protocol for families to other categories of persons; her plans to extend this to areas outside of County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39580/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (16 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: 150. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current status of the budget for services for older persons in County Louth; if he will confirm whether nursing care beds for older persons are currently being rented from the National Health Service in Northern Ireland; in the event that such beds are being rented, if he will provide a costing for same and rationale for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Expenditure (16 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will provide financial data for the cost savings, not including staff reductions and removal of services, at St. Joseph's Hospital, Ardee, County Louth and St.Oliver Plunkett Hospital, Dundalk, County Louth over the period 2011 to 2013 associated with the implementation of the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan. [39514/14]

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: The imposition of domestic water charges on top of all the other charges the Government has imposed on people is part of an agenda of privatisation shared by Fianna Fáil. The manner in which the company was established and is being managed and in which the unfair water charges have been imposed has been chaotic and farcical and the Taoiseach misses the main point, which is that the vast...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: People have the right to water. I know it is not free and has to be paid for. Sinn Féin has shown how it can be paid for.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I was at a public meeting last night in Dundalk and I heard speaker after speaker say from the floor that they cannot pay this. They included women with small children, elderly people and people living on their own. They are dealing with the reality that they will get water dependent on their wealth and they will get water if they can set aside some other bill. The Minister for Finance...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I call on people to come out, demonstrate and show the Government that what happened in Dublin recently was not a one-off. Regardless of what the Taoiseach says about Fianna Fáil, Deputy Doherty spelt out in Sinn Féin's alternative budget how this could be paid for, but all the time the Taoiseach has repeatedly missed the point on this issue. The people have had tax upon tax,...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: We never said that.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: They will be glad the Taoiseach recognises that.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: It would not pay for the turkey.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of the undocumented Irish during his recent visit to United States. [39819/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: An Teachta Boyd Barrett asserted that the main Opposition parties had a tolerance for corporation tax avoidance and I want to put it on the Dáil record that Sinn Féin is against corporation tax avoidance. If my recollection is correct, it was first raised here by our finance spokesperson, Deputy Pearse Doherty. I have raised it with the Taoiseach many times, not least because it...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: Can I make it clear that I have no objections, nor should anyone, to the Oireachtas looking at any allegations of abuse of any kind, especially child abuse? The Fianna Fáil leader and the Taoiseach have made grievous accusations against me that I reject utterly. Neither the Taoiseach nor the leader of Fianna Fáil, who is sitting within feet of me, have ever come to me and asked...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I want to make it clear that there has been no cover-up, by me or by Sinn Féin, on this matter. The questions I want to raise-----