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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: That is fair enough. The point I am trying to make in terms of the programme for Government commitment to create a fair funding model to deliver clean and reliable water is that the Taoiseach would be better off abandoning the remnants of the old model and going for a proper focus on providing that and taking the burden off citizens. On the issue of climate change, what the Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: I seek clarity on the water issue. According to Irish Water's own projections, water services will only have been marginally improved by 2021, but the taxpayer will end up paying more. By that point, Irish Water will have spent approximately €8 billion. There is still time to consider setting all of this aside to establish a proper water service funded from general taxation and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Not necessarily.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: How will the Government play its part?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: 327. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 17 February 2015, if she has received a report on the matter from the Garda Commissioner; and if not, if she will provide a timeframe for receipt of same. [9086/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: 328. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 323 of 17 February 2015, if she has received a report on the matter from the Garda authorities; and if not, if she will provide a time frame for receipt of same. [9087/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (3 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: 363. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth, who is awaiting an appointment in St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8, and who, although provided with an appointment date of 27 July 2015, believes that this is an unacceptable time frame in view of the level of discomfort being experienced; if he will examine this case...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: The number of citizens lying on trolleys in hospitals this morning stands at 520. Within my constituency, there are 40 people on trolleys in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. Conditions in the emergency department at Beaumont Hospital are now so bad that a senior emergency department doctor in a letter to hospital management and the HSE described them as the equivalent of health-care...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: I do not know what the Taoiseach means when he says this is not the first time that a person involved in medical services has written a letter like this. I do not know what he means when he says the Minister commented on the matter this morning. The Minister is not just a commentator.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: People will be outraged at the contrast between the conditions endured by patients in emergency departments on the Government's watch and the Comptroller and Auditor General's report that HSE managers are claiming public money for nights in five star hotels, flights for guests and alcohol on trips. The audit report also found that a former retired employee was rehired on a contract of six...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Tánaiste is telling us how our recovery-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Cuirim an ceist anois. The Tánaiste is telling us that a recovery in public finances means the Government will make long-term investment, but there has not been one word about the hospital crisis or the 24,369 patients who are awaiting elective surgery for more than six months. Contrary to what the Taoiseach claims, his Minister did not respond to this matter this morning. He waltzes...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Let us focus on a solution. The current health budget is entirely unrealistic and insufficient to deal with the crisis. Getting medically discharged patients home or into nursing beds will relieve all of that by giving them the protections they deserve as citizens. I ask the Taoiseach to refrain from smart alec remarks and to try to deal with a solution to resolve this problem. For once,...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: We can talk about water some other time.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Why does the Taoiseach not come up to Derry?

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach's time is up.

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: Since the Stormont House Agreement was reached at Christmas, Sinn Féin has been engaging positively in party leaders' meetings at Stormont to ensure its full implementation. However, it became clear last week that the DUP was intent on reneging on commitments in that agreement. Martin McGuinness discovered that it was the intention of the DUP to provide only partial protection to...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: I am disappointed that the Taoiseach does not know how Martin McGuinness discovered it because the Taoiseach's officials were fully briefed on that over the weekend, so he should know. Martin McGuinness discovered it because we were given papers - we believe by mistake. When he discovered this, he spent several days last week, including during our Ard-Fheis, trying to meet the DUP. The DUP...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: He knows.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if, during the recent meeting of the British-Irish Council, he discussed with the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Mr. Martin McGuinness MLA, his proposal for an all-Ireland process to deal with the issue of those who were victims of sexual abuse during the conflict and who did not have access to proper support or were denied justice; and if he will make a...