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Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: He has no problem with legislating for a compliance regime for pensioners, social welfare recipients or workers, but not for the banks. He is prepared to introduce this unprecedented, pocket-picking legislation against those citizens, but he refuses to legislate to protect citizens against the banks or to safeguard taxpayers' money. Will the Taoiseach explain that? Tá mé...

Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: Early last year, the Taoiseach volunteered to bring forward an all-party Oireachtas motion in support of the Ballymurphy families and although we did not ask for this, I very much welcomed it. When I asked him about it some months later, because it had not been brought forward, on 1 July, he said the Government was working on a comprehensive motion which would be discussed with Deputies...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (6 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the status of provision of the pre-school placement special needs assistant resources for children with special needs for the upcoming school year; if there have been any changes to the system of allocation of these resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17475/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (6 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that parents of children with special needs fear that they may be faced with reduced resource special needs assistant hours in the upcoming school year; the assurances he will provide to alleviate such fears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17476/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (6 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the reason some families have been advised that their children with special needs will be subject to an assessment regarding special needs assistant hours; if there will be an imposed limit of resource hours provided further to such assessments in the upcoming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17477/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (6 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 328. To ask the Minister for Health if current providers of pre-school placements and associated special needs assistant resource hours will be, or have been, consulted with, in regard to the allocation of resources for the upcoming school year; if the considered opinion of these service providers will be considered, as part of an assessment to allocate resource special needs assistant hours;...

Challenges Facing the European Union: Statements (Resumed) (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin is very critical of the democratic deficit at the heart of the European Union and of the Government's compliant attitude to the EU elites. We have long argued for a social Europe based on equality and the rights of all EU citizens. However, I will concentrate my remarks today on one of a range of challenges facing the EU, which is that if the outgoing British Prime Minister,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €44 million allocated to the fair deal nursing home scheme that has been distributed; and to which regions. [17991/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €44 million allocated to the fair deal nursing home scheme that has been distributed to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Hospitals Group. [17992/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the new funding allocated to the fair deal nursing home scheme that has been allocated to each of the five hospitals in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Hospitals Group. [17993/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional fair deal beds that have been opened since his announcement of €44 million additional funding. [17994/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional fair deal beds that have been opened in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Hospitals Group since his announcement of €44 million additional funding. [17995/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional fair deal beds that have been opened in each of the five hospitals that make up the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Hospitals Group since his announcement of €44 million additional funding. [17996/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for approved applicants in each of the five hospitals that make up the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Hospitals Group since his announcement of €44 million additional funding. [17997/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 151. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the report into the public consultation on whether to make a number of prescription-only medicines, used in emergency situations, more widely available, including EpiPens, which are used to treat allergic shock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17998/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 152. To ask the Minister for Health when he will conclude his review into the possible wider availability of a number of prescription-only medicines, used in emergency situations, more widely available, including EpiPens, which are used to treat allergic shock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17999/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 153. To ask the Minister for Health when he will bring forward recommendations on the wider availability of a number of prescription-only medicines, used in emergency situations, more widely available, including EpiPens, which are used to treat allergic shock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18000/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the number of X-rays and scans that were reviewed in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth, as a result of the discovery of errors in the analysis of three locum radiologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18007/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 158. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the X-rays and scans that were reviewed in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth, as a result of the discovery of errors in the analysis of three locum radiologists, the period of time during which these errors occurred. [18008/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (7 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 159. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the X-rays and scans that were reviewed in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth, as a result of the discovery of errors in the analysis of three locum radiologists, the steps that have been taken to informing the patients affected. [18009/15]