Results 81-100 of 11,500 for speaker:Gerry Adams
- Tribunals of Inquiry (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach for that answer. I hope he will be just as clear when following the other money trails later when we are debating the Moriarty tribunal report.
- Tribunals of Inquiry (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Would it not have been cheaper to go to the Garda SÃochána on this matter?
- Ministerial Staff (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he has appointed or will be appointing advisors and programme managers and other staff to his Department in addition to the regular Departmental staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5740/11]
- Ministerial Staff (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: This Chamber seems to be awash with money today. When Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen were taoisigh the Taoiseach, Deputy Kenny, quite rightly gave off about special advisers. It is one of the matters that has helped to bring politics into disrepute. Last year the Fianna Fáil Taoiseach set out the salaries of his special advisers. There were seven of them with salaries ranging from...
- Ministerial Staff (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: -----and the minimum wage rates are being cut and the universal social charge is being imposed. Would the Taoiseach not stop this gravy train for advisers? Would he not rely upon the very well paid senior civil servants in his Department and on his party staff to ensure that the programme for Government is implemented? Will the Taoiseach set out the cost of those special advisers to the...
- Ministerial Staff (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: It is the salaries that are being attacked.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: NÃor mhaith liom cur isteach ar an Teachta. I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that golden circles and elites have brought this State into economic distress. There is evidence of complicity and collusion between some politicians, some sections of the media, big business, financiers and so on. Some people have been accused of economic treason. As the Taoiseach has said, there is a wide...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: It is like saying "big boys made me do it". The fact is that the legal advice did not have to be taken.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: That begs another question. Who paid for that legal advice and how much was it? I would like to return to the whole business of payments. Denis O'Brien made a series of payments to Deputy Lowry when the Deputy was a Fine Gael Minister. A payment of £147,000 was made on behalf of Denis O'Brien via a series of offshore accounts to Deputy Lowry's Irish Nationwide account in the Isle of Man....
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: I object to the proposed Order of Business on the basis that this is not an adequate debate. We should be debating a motion endorsing the recommendations in the Moriarty tribunal report. I thank the judge for completing his investigation on behalf of the Dáil. It is not acceptable for us to deal with this through a serious of speeches. I note that the Government is to give Deputy Lowry a...
- Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: I wish to share time with Deputies Ferris and O'Brien.
- Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: I am a bit conflicted by this debate. I scanned the report, read the executive summary, wrote up notes, was briefed and took advice on it. I came into the House with a speech and then I heard the Taoiseach's remarks. It is a bit strange for people like me to come into the House and try to make sense of all of this. I believe in politics as a public service. I believe in republicanism. I...
- Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: I beg leave of Deputy Ferris to give me slightly more time. It is all here, and I will quote. Others have quoted it, but I will do my best. In terms of the infamous â¬50,000, the report states: ...the immediate donor was ... outside ... the jurisdiction; that the donation was misrepresented in the books of the immediate donor; that it was transmitted [via] ... a covert off-shore route, ......
- Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: I am somewhat disappointed that the Acting Chairman is the only Labour Party Member in the Chamber. While we can say what we want about Fine Gael, it is deeply disappointing that the Labour Party has aligned itself with the universal social charge. In December Deputy Shortall, now Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, described it as little more than a working poor...
- Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: That is not true.
- Hospital Services (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Táim buÃoch don Aire Stáit as ucht fanacht anseo linn chun páirt a ghlacadh sa dÃospóireacht seo. The public health care system in Louth and east Meath is in crisis because of the Fianna Fáil-led Government pursuing a policy of privatisation. This has stripped Louth County Hospital of its essential services. The children's ward was the first to go, followed by the maternity ward and...
- Hospital Services (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Go raibh maith agat.
- Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he has met with his counterpart in the Assembly; if he will be seeking a meeting with his colleagues in the Assembly in advance of and after the Assembly elections to discuss an all-Ireland enterprise policy; if he will be prioritising co-operation with his Northern counterparts to sell Ireland as a place for business;...
- Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (29 Mar 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when the cut in the minimum wage will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5884/11]