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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate change has met. [18145/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Was the Cabinet's decision to adopt a commercial stimulus model as its ownership model for broadband and to leave our communications infrastructure in the hands of the private sector discussed by the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate change? If it was, it reinforces what I think is a serious mistake because rural Ireland, as the Taoiseach knows, has been denied...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: No. Is iad sin mo dhá cheist.

Citizens' Assembly: Motion (13 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: I move amendment No. 4:To delete all words after "That Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“approves the calling of a Constitutional Convention to consider the following matters and to make such recommendations as it sees fit and report to the Houses of the Oireachtas:(i) the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution; (ii) how we best respond to the challenges and...

Citizens' Assembly: Motion (13 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Go n-éirí an t-ádh leat i d'oifig nua. Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis seo labhairt ar an rún atá os comhair na Dála anocht. Baineann an rún leis an Tionól Saoránach atá beartaithe. All mechanisms by which citizens can have further opportunities to participate in democratic processes should be welcomed and commended. There have been a...

Citizens' Assembly: Motion (13 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Tá mé chun an leasú seo a bhrú chun cinn.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (14 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 101. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the national Traveller accommodation consultative committee has submitted its suggested composition and terms of reference for the Housing Agency's independent review of Traveller accommodation programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21799/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (14 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 102. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the make-up of the special working group which is auditing the delivery and implementation of local authorities' Traveller accommodation plans; when this audit will conclude; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21800/16]

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Three weeks ago, there was a motion before the Dáil calling for the establishment of a commission of investigation into the sale of NAMA's Northern loan book, Project Eagle. The Government and Fianna Fáil blocked this motion. The Taoiseach claimed that the allegations relating to the sale of Project Eagle had nothing to do with NAMA as an entity. Yet it emerged last week that the...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: I reassure the Taoiseach that of course I support the Comptroller and Auditor General, but his role is restricted and limited. He will seek to establish the monetary value of the transactions; I asked the Taoiseach about a commission of investigation. When Teachta Mick Wallace raised this issue last week, the Taoiseach gave him a different answer from the one he has given me. This week, he...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: A commission of investigation.

Nice Attacks: Expressions of Sympathy (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clanna na ndaoine a mharaíodh in Nice sa Fhrainc Déardaoin seo caite. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha dílse. Chuir sé déistin orm nuair a chonaic mé an nuacht. Caithfidh achan duine seasamh go láidir in aghaidh an ionsaithe seo. On behalf of Sinn Féin, I extend my sincerest and heartfelt...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Minister for her statement, although it might give little solace to the workers who now feel under threat in eBay in Dundalk, which is in my constituency. I want to raise another issue. Six months ago, the Minister for Finance established a task force in his Department to review policy in the insurance sector. Last week, however, in a parliamentary response to an Teachta...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice reform last met. [22524/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Eight men have been murdered as part of a criminal gang feud in Dublin, and the impact of this on the whole community, especially in the north inner city, has been enormous. Many residents - families and their children - are living in fear. The Taoiseach met with some of them recently and he quite rightly praised and commended their resilience and steadfastness. Since then, as well as the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: A Cheann Comhairle, gabh mo leithscéal-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: On a point of order-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Tá mé fíor buíoch díotsa. Winning and sustaining the confidence of communities which are victimised by gangs is really important.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: I asked the Taoiseach a specific question about consulting with the people in the Dublin north inner city who he met and who he promised to go back to meet.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach did not answer the question.