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Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: Now, republicans-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I understand. I am about to finish.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: Republicans are no different from any other Irish citizens.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: Like most parents, we do our best to protect our children and keep them safe. We have learned that ongoing vigilance and believing children is essential.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: We know that reporting quickly and to the right channels-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: -----is the way to seek and achieve justice. While I welcome a comprehensive debate in the House as opposed to the sleveen way that the Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader have approached this-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: -----will the Taoiseach accept that these serious and difficult matters need to be dealt with in a victim-centred way by the appropriate authorities and not politicised as they have been in this Chamber?

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: Maíria Cahill has made serious allegations and the Taoiseach has met her and listened to her allegations. Will he now facilitate a meeting with those she accuses? These are named people. Now that he has set himself up to make judgment on this, will he bring into Áras an Rialtais the people who have been named-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: -----and ask them the questions he is asserting as fact? I refute the allegations that have been made about me and about other Sinn Féin members who assure me all they did in their engagements, conversations and work-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: -----with Maíria Cahill was to help them.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: No, a Cheann Comhairle-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: If you treated the Taoiseach and the leader of Fianna Fáil like that yesterday-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: Let me-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I am not making snide comments. Let me get to the point. The Taoiseach has made accusations against members of Sinn Féin and some of these were subject to court proceedings. Will he meet those people? Will he meet with me? Will he put to me the assertions that have been put?

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I ask the Taoiseach to listen because he has not listened.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I have already refuted the allegations made. I do not know who is not listening here. It is a very simple proposition. The Taoiseach has heard Maíria Cahill's story. All those from Sinn Féin who have met Maíria Cahill accept and acknowledge she was abused and traumatised. She then put a particular version of what occurred.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: These are not nameless, anonymous people. These are decent people. Will the Taoiseach meet them and listen to their version of the story, and then make a judgment on these matters?

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I did not say that. The Taoiseach should not dare say that. The Ceann Comhairle should do his job.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I did not say that. It is misrepresentation.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: I did not say that.