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Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: Five years.

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, said last night that the Government would oppose this Bill which he said was flawed, but he did not tell us where or how it was flawed. He also dismissed Sinn Féin in his usual charming and persuasive way. He said our tabling of the Bill was opportunistic. The fact is that the only thing that is flawed is his attitude to the housing crisis. Our...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (3 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her overall target for the number of members of An Garda Síochána, given the previous Minister’s assertion that Garda numbers should not fall below 13,000 and given that the Garda Síochána website states that there are currently 12,882 gardaí. [43341/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (3 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 135. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if retirement from An Garda Síochána will outnumber the intended 1,150 additional recruits by the end 2016. [43342/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (3 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 136. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality given that Garda Síochána graduates require an additional eight months of on-the-job training before they attain full qualification, when she envisages that significant improvements in fully qualified Garda numbers will be achieved. [43343/15]

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: Citizens are understandably incensed at the revelations of outright corruption by a number of politicians exposed by the "RTE Investigates" programme last night. As the Taoiseach knows, this is not new. Mr. Justice Mahon has said that corruption in Irish political life is both endemic and systemic. Fully 18 years after that tribunal began its work, three years after it made its final...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: I sense a change in tone from the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: If there is no place in public life, then the Taoiseach needs to bring forward regulations to take sanctions against these people. The Government has not done that. The Government Bill is totally and absolutely inadequate. The so-called independent regulator envisaged by Fine Gael and the Labour Party is not independently appointed. The regulator is accountable to the Minister. As far as...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: You say. Who appoints the regulator?

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: It is too little, too late.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: There was no member of Sinn Féin-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: If the Taoiseach keeps digging he will end up in Australia.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met. [42221/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet committee on health that have taken place in 2015 to date. [42222/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach clarify whether the Cabinet committee on health met six times or eight times?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach. We are not allowed to discuss the business of the committee, but I am concerned with getting a handle on how it does its work and holds the Government to account. The Government's position on health, or at least what was outlined to us, was that we would see free GP care for all, an end to prescription charges, universal health insurance, abolition of the Health...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: My instinct is to ask the Taoiseach - it will be ruled out of order, but I will ask him anyway - whether the committee considered any of those matters. The Taoiseach once talked, famously, about having a report card. As we approach the end of the year, if this committee had a report card, how would he mark it up? No free GP care for all, no end to prescription charges, no universal health...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: Two thousand fewer nurses.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: Half a million people across the globe.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: Why has the Government not done it?