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

Gerry Adams: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed with the Deputy First Minister, Mr. Martin McGuinness MLA, and the First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson MLA, of Northern Ireland the proposition that an all-island process be established, through the North-South Ministerial Council, to deal with the issue of support mechanisms for those who were victims of sexual abuse during the conflict. [46822/14]

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

Gerry Adams: I very much appreciate the Taoiseach's appeal for people to be very careful about what they say in this House because these matters are under investigation by An Garda Síochána. This has not stopped the Fianna Fáil Party leader from naming a private citizen in the Chamber in the past in connection with the most serious of allegations. It did not stop the Taoiseach from...

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

Gerry Adams: If these issues were not so serious and if so many people's lives had not been destroyed by what had occurred, the process of debate and discussion here would be a very educational one. The Fianna Fáil leader spoke about the IRA community, Sinn Féin-IRA, the IRA running Sinn Féin and so on and so forth. It is clear that, whatever affinity he may have with victims and...

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

Gerry Adams: Absolutely.

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

Gerry Adams: I know all that.

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

Gerry Adams: I presume the Taoiseach would want some evidence.

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

Gerry Adams: I understand that.

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

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has the response of the Sinn Féin representative.

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

Gerry Adams: So the Taoiseach is not prejudging it?

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

Gerry Adams: They are not good enough.

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

Gerry Adams: That is why the process is needed.

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

Gerry Adams: Nobody is suggesting that at all.

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

Gerry Adams: We agree on that.

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

Gerry Adams: What about the Deputy First Minister's proposal?

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

Gerry Adams: May I make a brief response?

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

Gerry Adams: I will make a brief point. We are agreed that people should be subject to due process and that the Garda Síochána and PSNI should deal with the issue. We are agreed that people should have more counselling and so on.

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

Gerry Adams: I do not understand why the Taoiseach did not make a substantive response to the Deputy First Minister and why he cannot embrace this proposal in order to put it on the agenda of the next North-South Ministerial Council.

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

Gerry Adams: We have done so.

Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: I have three cheist. The first is on the prisons Bill, in which Deputy Durkan also has an interest.

Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: The second is on a review of the fair deal system and the third is on promised insolvency legislation. In November the inspector of prisons, Mr. Justice Reilly, said:Prisoners forfeit their rights to freedom. That is all they forfeit. They are entitled to all other rights and privileges that you and I enjoy.We have 300 prisoners on lockdown for at least 19 hours and some on a 23 hour...