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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has made it clear that he will not act on the recommendation of the sixth report of the Convention on the Constitution, although the Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, told the Dáil that this recommendation was accepted and that a referendum would be held to remove the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution. The law defines blasphemy as publishing or...

Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: At every opportunity the Government and particularly the Taoiseach repeats the mantra that this Government is doing things differently and that legislation is dealt with openly and transparently and in an accountable way. Maith thú, a Thaoisigh. Yet here, in the very best traditions of Fianna Fáil, the Government is pulling a stroke. We have a series of motions that are designed...

Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: I am advised by those who have been here longer than me that coming towards the end of every session there is a rush to get matters rammed through.

Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: I am just trying, for the benefit of an Teachta Rabbitte, to spread the blame to both the last Government and this one. The point is well made that these matters require separate legislation. As I said previously, they require a full pre-legislative debate with stakeholders, a Second Stage debate, a full Committee Stage and Report Stage. The whole controversy about Irish Water and the...

Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: What is the Government attaching this issue to? It is being attached to issues like Killarney Park and dog licences. Flann O'Brien could not write this script. Dog breeding is another issue it is being attached to. We are supposed to be a mature Dáil and Parliament and not to sit here and meekly accept the Government playing fast and loose. Democratic revolution my arse.

Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: I am quoting Flann O'Brien.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the concern of the Irish Postmasters' Union in respect of the recent issue of revised application forms from her Department; if she is aware that this has already impacted on some post offices' business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25932/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update following her own request that her Department review social welfare forms; the time frame for this review; and the suggested neutral wording in relation to payment options that is to be provided. [25933/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a commitment to withdraw the amended, and contentious, social welfare forms currently in circulation; her plans to cease distribution of these forms, being fully cognisant of the potential impact it may hold for smaller post offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25934/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the consultation or discussion that took place with postmasters in advance of the decision to issue new social welfare application forms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25935/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of beef farmers who will receive payments under the 2014 beef data programme; the amount they will receive; the amount of this as a percentage of the total funding available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26158/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 320. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of beef farmers who will not receive payments under the 2014 beef data programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26159/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 321. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have applied for the 2015 beef data and genomics programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26160/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he expects that all of those who submit applications under the beef data and genomics programme 2015 will be paid by the middle of December 2015, as promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26164/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he accepts the concerns expressed by the Irish Farmers' Association that the 2015 beef data and genomics programme is over complicated; that the requirements are set too high; that it will impose excessive costs on farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26161/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is prepared to consider revising any of the regulations currently part of the beef data and genomics programme 2015, including the requirement that 50% of the breeding female animals have to be four or five star by 2020; if he will consider increasing the per-hectare payment for each cow on the first ten cows; if he will open...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is prepared to review the unfair criteria in the terms and conditions on the six-year rule and payments clawbacks in the beef data and genomics programme 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26163/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 326. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the help and advice available to beef farmers to fill in the application forms for the beef data and genomics programme 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26165/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 421. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Protection Surveillance Centre final report on Lyme borreliosis will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25919/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: 512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered evidence from the Institute of Guidance Councillors, the Economic and Social Research Institute, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, the Teachers' Union of Ireland and the joint managerial body on the impact of the cutbacks in guidance counselling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25891/15]