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

Gerry Adams: For the record, Sinn Féin did not go solo. This is an Oireachtas motion. The entire Oireachtas agreed to it.

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

Gerry Adams: The key issue is that the Government has failed to act on the determination of the Oireachtas. When I was speaking a moment ago, I informed the Taoiseach that the letter I received from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade at his request was entirely unsatisfactory. In his reply, the Taoiseach essentially read out the content of that letter. We want to see the Government recognising...

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

Gerry Adams: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit that he attended in June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31692/15]

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

Gerry Adams: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversations with European Union leaders at the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit in June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31693/15]

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

Gerry Adams: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on bilateral meetings he held while attending the European Union, Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit in June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31694/15]

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

Gerry Adams: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he spoke to the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, at the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit in June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31695/15]

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

Gerry Adams: I was reminded during my recent visit to Cuba of the enormous historical links that exist between Ireland and Latin America. Apart from anything else, there are half a million or more citizens in that part of the world who claim Irish descent. There has been a huge change in the politics of that region. I commend Presidents Obama and Castro for the new accord which has developed and for...

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

Gerry Adams: I will finish on the following point. I support the Dwyer family in their call for a fully independent international inquiry into the state killing of Michael Dwyer. Having watched a television programme about the case recently, I hope the Government will give the family as much support as possible.

Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: The promised legislation on bankruptcy proposes to reduce the length of bankruptcy from three years to one year. It was handed over to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, which reported to the Minister at the beginning of July after unanimously agreeing that it should be reduced to one year. That is the last we have heard of it. It is still sitting on the Minister's desk....

Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: Roimh aimsir na Nollag.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: 117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that rent allowance payments will continue to recipients whose current landlords refuse to migrate to the housing assistance payment scheme; if she will acknowledge that any stoppage in rent allowance before a tenant has secured accommodation which will engage with the HAP scheme will force persons into a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a child (details supplied) in County Meath who is awaiting a scan to determine whether the child is suffering from long QT syndrome; that the child's parents have been informed of a six week wait time for this scan; if this will be expedited, given the dangers posed by long QT syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39119/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, has had to be taken off call; the reason this has occurred; and the steps that have been taken to ensure this does not happen again. [39138/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance vehicles available in the north east region, by location, for each year since 2011. [39139/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: 386. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance staff available in the north east region, by location, for each year since 2011. [39140/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: 387. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the Health Service Executive’s implementation of the Health Information and Quality Authority’s response time standards in respect of ambulance response times in the north east region. [39141/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: 388. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the effectiveness of the classifying of 112 and 999 emergency calls by clinical status. [39142/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the time allocated for ambulance response times for clinical status 1 echocardigram calls in 2014 and 2015; and the percentage of ambulances that achieved this goal. [39143/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: 390. To ask the Minister for Health the time allocated for ambulance response times for delta cases in 2014 and 2015; and the percentage of ambulances that achieved this goal. [39144/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Reports (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: 391. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Health Information and Quality Authority recommendations contained in its review of pre-hospital emergency care services to ensure high quality in the assessment, diagnosis, clinical management and transport of acutely ill patients to appropriate health care facilities which have been implemented. [39145/15]