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Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: It smacks of the conservatism of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Does the Taoiseach believe that almost 500,000 people on the dole have made a lifestyle choice?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Have the people on trolleys, those who are emigrating, the low paid and people without accident and emergency services made that choice? Are the lifestyle choices of our people being made by the Government? It has a choice between giving billions of euros to toxic banks and putting it into job creation or public services. It has made a lifestyle choice to put this money into bad banks....

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: I asked the Taoiseach about the inappropriateness of the Minister's remarks but he did not answer. I recognise that the Taoiseach has a mandate but he also had a manifesto. Does he remember the five-point plan?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Let me remind the Taoiseach. It states: Our five-point plan is like a five-pointed star. It gives clarity, light and direction to what will be a difficult journey to a better future ahead.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Could we have clarity, light and direction?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach make a lifestyle choice not to pour billions of euros into toxic banks? Will he assure the Dáil that those on social welfare or on low pay will not have benefits or pay cut further? Will he ask the Minister for Social Protection not to demonise those she is supposed to protect?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach should act on our plan.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: The Fine Gael plan is the Fianna Fáil plan.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Iarraim an Dáil a chur ar athló chun an ceist práinneach seo a phlé, namely, in the immediate aftermath of the Cloyne report, and with the Government promising new legislation to protect children from sexual abuse and to uphold the rights of victims, it does not make sense and it is a disgraceful decision, that the HSE should impose a freeze on employing desperately needed counsellors to...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Cad faoi dé hAoine?

Written Answers — Medical Certificates: Medical Certificates (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis upon which he notified schools that doctors' certificates from the North are not acceptable; the length of time certificates from the North were accepted by him; the reason certificates from the North are now being refused; the number of teachers that will be affected by this decision; and if he accepts that this decision...

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise persons (details supplied) who have been unable to secure a place in a suitable secondary school for this September other than a fee-paying school; the steps he will take to resolve this matter; his views on whether there is shortage of secondary school places in the Dundalk area; the action he will take to resolve...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 487: To ask the Minister for Health the way the allocation of €69,000 to an organisation (details supplied) compares with taxpayers' moneys paid since 13 October 1995 including lump sum retirement money and annual pension payments to a former consultant at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth. [20848/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 488: To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the fact that a person (details supplied) was subsequently struck off the medical register for the sexual assault of three former patients and that the Garda awaits the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions in respect of more than 100 files alleging sexual abuse, he will accept that this is an inadequate fund to support...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 503: To ask the Minister for Health when he will meet with the Save Our Hospital Services committee from Dundalk to discuss services at the Louth County Hospital, as requested by it in writing on two occasions since his appointment and referred to by the Minister of State in an Adjournment debate in the Dáil on 29 March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21006/11]

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: When I questioned the Taoiseach yesterday-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: When I questioned the Taoiseach about the claims of a Labour Party Minister in a Fine Gael Government that citizens on the dole are making a lifestyle choice, he seemed to suggest he had no choice other than what is Government is doing. He repeated that suggestion a minute ago. He does have choices, however. Is féidir leis an Taoiseach seasamh a dhéanamh, is féidir leis gealltanais an...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: Wherever I travelled in the interest of the Irish peace process, a process to which his Government objected-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: -----or wherever I travelled in the interest of Irish unity and the freedom of our people, those who invited me picked up the tab. The Irish taxpayer did not pick up the tab. The Irish taxpayer is paying the Taoiseach to go to Europe and he avoided the question. It is a simple and straightforward matter. We are paying €10 billion in interest to our European partners but we cannot afford...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach will represent all of us. If the Labour Party would be so-----