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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (10 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the case of a child (details supplied) in County Meath whose school laptop was removed on 12 October 2015 for an upgrade; the timeframe for the return of the upgraded laptop to the child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39133/15]
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: It would be very useful to know what law prevents the Taoiseach from commenting on these issues, and I sincerely hope he is authorised to speak on the issue I will raise with him. Last month was the worst October on record for the number of citizens on trolleys in our hospitals. The number was almost 8,000 people including, infamously, a 91 year old patient who spent 29 hours on a trolley....
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: I asked the Taoiseach to acknowledge that the public health system requires much greater investment. He ignored this. His response was peppered with saying this is not the way he would want it to be, that the Minister has dealt with these demands in part and that we need much greater levels of management. Then, without a sense of shame or embarrassment, he announced that today 300 citizens...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: I am almost finished.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: Deputy Byrne comes in from the side all the time.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: He has no shame whatever about the record of his party.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach accept that the comments of his Minister for Health, along with the policy of the Government, have fundamentally undermined the public health system? Is it not time for the Taoiseach to stand up and admit that the Minister let the cat out of the bag and that the long-term plan of the Government is to abandon the public ownership model of health care?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: There are 300 people on trolleys today.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: What about the Minister for Health's remarks?
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: Not agreed. This motion, which proposes approval without discussion, has to do with economic partnership agreements with states in the Caribbean and others with the west African states-----
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: It is the first one.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: No, the terms of economic partnership agreements-----
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: Okay. Can I come back on this one when you get to it?
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: Not agreed.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: I understand that. I am looking for the Taoiseach to give a commitment to have full Oireachtas oversight when it comes out of the committee and to have a debate here, because this will have a huge effect on jobs. It will undermine development goals, including the recent sustainable development goals. We will not vote against it going into the committee, but we are looking for a debate when...
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: We are still not clear if and when the Taoiseach will allow a debate on the one-year bankruptcy law, and I would like clarity on that. I have two other ceisteanna, on the health (transport support) Bill and the international protection Bill, respectively. The health (transport support) Bill is intended to provide for a scheme to make individual payments towards transport costs for citizens...
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: I have raised this issue with the Taoiseach on at least half a dozen occasions. A new scheme is promised in section C of the Government's legislative programme. It is a scandal that severely disabled citizens have been denied assistance since 2013. Is there a date for the publication of the health (transport support) Bill? On the proposed international protection Bill, the Minister for...
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: Okay. It would be welcome if there were any measure to reduce the period over which people must stay in these provision centres. I have to say the arbitrary treatment of non-nationals in the past has caused-----
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerry Adams: Okay.