Results 61-80 of 11,500 for speaker:Gerry Adams
- Legislative Programme (23 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: May I say in passing, there is no reason that a Bill of rights should be confined to the Six Counties. We need a Bill of rights for the whole island. With regard to the legislative priorities, yesterday the Taoiseach said he intended to establish a constitutional convention. How will that be made up and what legislation is required for it? We have a firm view that it should be on an...
- Legislative Programme (23 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: I want to press the Taoiseach in as positive a way as possible on the convention. People from the North make up one quarter of the population on the island of Ireland. Therefore, they should have one quarter of the representatives. I ask the Taoiseach to consider this. Will the Diaspora be invited to be part of the convention? We are talking about an opportunity to do many good things,...
- Legislative Programme (23 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Particularly the rights of Irish citizens in the North.
- Departmental Functions (23 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: We recognise that there is another Government in office. Whether it is different remains to be seen and we are still trying to spot the difference.
- Departmental Functions (23 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: I have a couple of ceisteanna. There was a practice where staff in Departments were assigned to constituency work. How many staff, if any, in the Taoiseach's Department are assigned to this? In the last Dáil an adviser from the Department of the Taoiseach was seconded to the office of the Minister for Health and Children. Have steps been taken to rectify that position? There is another...
- Order of Business (23 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: It is not agreed. I made the point earlier that this is the only gathering anywhere in this island which is not allowed to discuss the Moriarty report. This is the Taoiseach's call and there is no need for a Whips' meeting or elaborate coming together. This is a pressing issue that reflects very badly on the Oireachtas, particularly as the Government has set an ambition to clean up the...
- Order of Business (23 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: I wish to make a point. There is no reason the House cannot have the debate today.
- Tax Code (23 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin does not accept that there must be a review, although we may have to deal with it as a de facto consequence of Government policy. The universal social charge is an oppressive tax which the Minister stated he inherited from another Government. Does he agree it is bad economics to cut the incomes of people who cannot afford not to spend the money they have? By taking money from...
- Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (23 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline for completion of the solvency stress tests of the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5393/11]
- Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (23 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Finance the medium-term, affordable, official financing that will be made available to the banks as per the programme for Government; the source of this funding; the cost at which this funding will come; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5394/11]
- Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (24 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will grant departmental recognition to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5513/11]
- European Council Meetings (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his participation the European Council meeting of 24/25 March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5738/11]
- European Council Meetings (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Bhà mé ag éisteacht leat, a Thaoisigh, agus ba chóir don Taoiseach seasamh suas ar son phobal na h-Ãireann ag an gcruinniú sin. Dúirt sé sa chlár Rialtais gur lorg sé agus go bhfuair sé sain-ordú láidir margadh nua a dhéanamh. I am very disappointed that the Taoiseach did not take the opportunity at the summit to raise the crisis pressing down on the people of this State, that...
- European Council Meetings (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Maith go leor a Cheann Comhairle. Go raibh maith agat arÃs. Why did the Taoiseach not argue, as he did here, that it was grossly unfair to expect Ireland to fork out 100%?
- European Council Meetings (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: There will be an interest rate reduction. I said that last week. The reality is that the Taoiseach has accepted the IMF-EU deal. He has also accepted the austerity measures that go with it. This includes the very oppressive universal social charge. He also agreed to a pact for the euro at the summit, but did not think to bring it back here to allow the people of this State to decide it...
- European Council Meetings (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Taoiseach, you say a break. We are broke. You need to tell the European Union that.
- Tribunals of Inquiry (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the total cost to his Department of the Moriarty Tribunal. [5739/11]
- Tribunals of Inquiry (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Seo an chéad uair ar thug an Taoiseach freagra dÃreach ar cheist faoi Moriarty. Comhghairdeas leis, tá sin go hiontach.
- Tribunals of Inquiry (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: It is great to have some clarity on a question to the Taoiseach about the Moriarty tribunal. If I am correct, â¬41.96 million has been spent on the tribunal over 14 years. This is a scandal. Recently there was a dispute and much controversy about the cost of the Saville inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry. The legal team at the Moriarty tribunal was paid over twice the...
- Tribunals of Inquiry (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: That will become clear later.