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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (5 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 566. To ask the Minister for Health the status of sarcoma cancer care further to his commitments to consider appointing a permanent consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma to meet demand at St. Vincent's University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19642/16]

Election of Leas-Cheann Comhairle (Resumed) (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Tá an Teachta Crowe tinn ag an uair seo, ach le cuidiú Dé beidh sé anseo arís sar i bhfad. Ba mhaith liom an Teachta Crowe a mholadh mar Leas-Cheann Comhairle inniu. Tá mé ag ainmniú an Teachta Crowe mar tá sé lán-sásta, agus tá mise lán-sásta, go mbeidh sé in ann dualgais na hoifige sin a chomhlíonadh i...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach's Government, aided and abetted by the Fianna Fáil Party, is stumbling from crisis to crisis. There is a calamity in our health system and there is a homelessness and housing crisis that is spiralling further out of control by the day. Citizens are being crippled by a cost of living crisis in rents, mortgages, child care, property tax and car insurance. To make matters...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: They should be scrapped and dealt with here in the Dáil, democratically and decisively. Here is the chance to get something done in this term. Let the people here, the Teachtaí Dála, vote on this issue, to scrap water charges, instead of kicking the issue down the road to an already undermined commission, or, in keeping with the fiction of new politics, does the Taoiseach...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Fianna Fáil made a very clear election manifesto commitment to scrap Irish Water and they should honour that commitment. The expert commission on water services was dreamt up to get them off the hook and Fine Gael bought into it because it needed the support of Fianna Fáil. Fianna Fáil was centrally involved in the rise and fall of Joe O'Toole and the Taoiseach has been...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Let us have some really new politics. Let us decide to scrap water charges today by putting a motion to the Dáil to relieve households of this punitive tax.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: On Saturday, protesters took part in a rally on Merrion Square to protest at the rise in car insurance premiums, which have increased by 67% over the past three years. Those involved who have to carry this burden want the Government to establish a task force, similar to the Motor Insurance Advisory Board, MIAB, which was established in the 1990s and whose recommendations led to a 40% drop in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent contacts with the Government of the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18143/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: I agree with the Taoiseach that the visit by Vice President Joe Biden and his clan was a great success. Like the Taoiseach and others here, I have met many who have travelled back home to their ancestral home place. It is always emotional and that was very obvious in the way Joe Biden and his family were met, not least in the Taoiseach's county of Mayo. Along with Deputy Munster, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the recent meetings of the European Council that he has attended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18144/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an Taoiseach. Everybody is now well aware of the real risks to the well-being of our people as a result of the Brexit vote. Yesterday, in his post-Council statement, the Taoiseach acknowledged that too lengthy a gap in the process of negotiation might prolong uncertainty, with negative consequences for businesses and consumer confidence. Yesterday he...

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Mo bhuíochas don Rural Alliance, mar mhol siad an rún seo agus táim fíorbhuíoch go bhfuil seans agamsa labhairt ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo. Go n-éirí leis an Aire in a phost nua. The provision of high speed broadband to rural Ireland will make a huge contribution to the much needed regeneration of rural communities. It is also clearly the...

Election of Leas-Cheann Comhairle (Resumed) (7 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Dúirt an Teachta Seán Crowe go bhfuil sé an-bhuíoch do na Teachtaí a thug vóta dó. Ar mo shon fhéin agus ar son an Teachta Crowe, ba mhaith liom mo chomhghairdeas a ghabháil le Pat the Cope. Tá mé an-shásta go mbeidh sé mar Leas-Cheann Comhairle iontach. Go n-éirí an t-ádh leis agus go n-éirí an...

Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Cuirim fáilte mór roimh an rún seo. Níl Ibrahim Halawa ach 20 bliain d'aois. Tá sé faoi ghlas anois ar feadh trí bliana. Tá sé sin thar a bheith mí-cheart agus caithfimid go léir brú níos láidre a chur ar Rialtas na hÉigipte as seo amach. Ibrahim was only 17 when he was arrested, a child, and he has spent the past...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (7 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 234. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the services available in County Louth for persons with spinal cord injuries; the community rehabilitation provision that exists in County Louth; the rehabilitation service that exist here for persons with spinal cord injuries who are on ventilation treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20199/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (7 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 246. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the 135 community first responder groups currently operating across the State; the funding that has been allocated to each of these groups each year for the past three years; the level of cross-Border co-operation that exists between these groups in Border counties with similar groups in the North; and if he will make a statement on the...

Regulation of Charities: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Tá mé buíoch as an deis labhairt ar an rún seo agus mo thacaíocht agus tacaíocht Shinn Féin a thabhairt dó. Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis an Teachta Catherine Murphy as ucht an rún seo a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. Revelations of outlandish spending on the part of the founder and his family at the Console charity have put the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Health Records (12 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 50. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in the development of e-prescribing, online referrals and scheduling, telehealth and the development of summary patient records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20924/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (12 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 120. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, for each of the past five years on legal fees; if this will be broken down in terms of legal representation for NMBI in taking fitness to practice cases, legal advice to the NMBI board, legal advice to NMBI staff and the number of fitness-to-practise cases taken by the board; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 587. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting times in respect of cataract surgery for each hospital. [21164/16]