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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 678. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for processing applications under the home care package scheme by county from 2010 to 2016, inclusive, to date; the number of persons awaiting approval; and the reason for the waiting time. [9554/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 679. To ask the Minister for Health his views on media reports that certain community health care organisations cannot accept applications for packages under the home care scheme; if new applications are being placed on a waiting list; the areas in which waiting lists exist and the length of same. [9555/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 689. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a treatment for multiple sclerosis called Lemtrada, including its availability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9658/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 1165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the provision of slip roads on the M1 motorway at the junction with the main Dundalk-Armagh road at Kilcurry, County Louth; if this proposal has been considered before; if An Bord Pleanála previously rejected such a proposal and, if so, the rationale for doing so; the approximate cost for such a scheme; and if...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Rape Crisis Network Funding (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 1200. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocated to Rape Crisis north east in County Louth for each of the years 2010 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9740/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Rape Crisis Network Funding (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 1201. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is aware that any of the existing Rape Crisis centres have had to reduce services provided as a result of cuts to funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9741/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Counselling Services Provision (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 1202. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the counselling services available for persons seeking support as survivors of sexual abuse in counties Louth and Meath; if there is a waiting time involved for such services; and her views that such services are sufficient to meet the needs of persons in Counties Louth and Meath. [9742/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Reports (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 1207. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 485 of 16 June 2015, if the indicated additional two liaison officers to work with residents and the Reception and Integration Agency have been appointed; the additional training these officers have received; the additional training social workers have received to improve cultural competency; and...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Reports (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 1208. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 486 of 16 June 2015, if funding has been accessed by social workers working with families in Mosney direct provision centre for translation services during the past ten months. [10390/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Reports (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 1209. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 488 of 16 June 2015, if she will confirm that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has translated relevant information leaflets into French and Swahili for families in the Mosney direct provision centre. [10391/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Reports (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 1210. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of live child protection cases at Mosney direct provision centre. [10392/16]
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: As we all know, the responsibility of the Opposition is to hold the Government to account. The Minister for Justice and Equality has a responsibility to hold the Garda Commissioner to account and is answerable to the Dáil. Sinn Féin wanted the Policing Authority to have more powers. It should be able to hold the Commissioner to account and no one Minister should have this...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin argued for an independent Garda authority, for which the previous Government, of which the Tánaiste was a member, ridiculed us. We argued for it to be established along the lines of the Patten Commission. It was only when the series of scandals erupted that she eventually and reluctantly opted for the model she now has. I wish the commission well but I return to my...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: Yes. Ní bheidh mé ró-fhada, a Cheann Comhairle. The issues we are dealing with here, as the Tánaiste knows, are not trivial, they go to the core of confidence in our policing and justice systems, and all of us have a duty to build confidence in these systems. This is also about the Tánaiste's solemn responsibilities as part of the Government. She says she is...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: I am not asking the Tánaiste to do that.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: We want the Minister to do it.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: Is that a confession?
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: We never asked the Minister that.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: The Deputy never asked that.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: The Deputy should let the Minister answer.