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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (31 May 2017)

Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the support provided by his Department to Independent Cabinet Ministers as listed as a core departmental function in its strategy statement 2016 to 2019. [25567/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)

Gerry Adams: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of special advisers in his Department. [24640/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (31 May 2017)

Gerry Adams: 208. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) from County Louth whose consultant has requested that they be provided with a glucometer scanner in order that they would no longer have to prick their fingers for glucose readings; if he will provide this equipment to this person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26096/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: Deputy Seán Crowe will be taking some of the time too. I welcome the opportunity to speak with members about the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 which was referred to the joint committee in March 2015 following receipt of cross-party support on Second Stage. I hope the cross-party support for a measure we have all agreed on can be found...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: I welcome the positive response from committee members. Senator Grace O'Sullivan put it well when she described the proposal as part of the modernisation of Ireland. As I stated, this is a focused Bill. Other legitimate and important issues arise, some of which Teachtaí have raised. However, this Bill deals with a proposal made by the Convention on the Constitution by seeking to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: We would not concede that at this point.

Resignation of Taoiseach (13 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: I want to start by wishing the outgoing Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, well. Tá muintir Fhine Gael agus Mhaigh Eo buíoch don Taoiseach agus tá mé buíoch don Taoiseach fosta. Ní aontaím leis ar a lán rudaí, ach tá a fhios agam go ndearna sé a dhícheall. Sinn Féin and Fine Gael did not agree on many issues and I did not see eye to...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: Tá mé ag roinnt mo chuid ama leis an Teachta Louise O'Reilly. Lá mór é seo i saol an Teachta Leo Varadkar agus saol a mhuintir, go háirithe a thuismitheoirí atá anseo inniu agus iad bródúil agus sásta. Cuirim fáilte mhór rompu. I particularly welcome Deputy Leo Varadkar's family to the House who are proud and happy on this...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: However, this Chamber is also a bubble, a silo detached from the lives of citizens. Sometimes politics takes the form of cheap shots, slander, demonisation and playing to the lowest common denominator. The first term of this Government saw lots of that. The political discourse was cheapened and coarsened as a result. I hope the new Taoiseach does not repeat that mistake. I think he is...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: We could not get the former Taoiseach to stretch as far as that.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: This is a big day for Leo and his clan, who are rightly proud. We wish them all well. Maybe he is perplexed by Sinn Féin's refusal to accept the status quoor join the cosy club typified by his party's little arrangement with Fianna Fáil. Declaring that he is going to take on Sinn Féin might play well in some quarters, but it means little in the real world. Successive British...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: I want to raise the fiction of new politics with the Taoiseach. A week ago, he was elected by 57 Deputies while 50 Deputies voted against him. Some 44 Fianna Fáil Deputies abstained in keeping with that party's supply and confidence agreement with Fine Gael, of which we have just seen lots of evidence. The Taoiseach represents 36% of the Dáil. He has no popular mandate. That is...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: When it comes to the crunch, of course, they simply roll over. The hard undeniable reality is that this Government remains in power because of Fianna Fáil-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: What is that all about? Is it not cynical and self-serving?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: It is not about ending poverty and homelessness, creating decent public services, uniting Ireland or facing up to the challenges of Brexit; it is about sustaining the status quo. Does the Taoiseach agree that these new politics are a sham?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: If I may say so, that is in some way an acknowledgment that the process that was used was inappropriate. It makes a change for a leader of Fine Gael to accuse Sinn Féin of being in favour of elections, a rather interesting turn of phrase. I want to find out more about these new politics. The Taoiseach said that the North and Brexit would be his Government's priorities. He went to...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: He informed us, as he and Theresa May spoke on the way in, that he told her that it reminded him of that scene in "Love Actually" where Hugh Grant did his dance down the stairs. It is not exactly in keeping with the spirit of Michael Collins. The Taoiseach went on to tell us he was very reassured by Theresa May that any agreement between the Conservatives and the DUP would not impact on the...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has no reason to believe any assurance from the British Prime Minister. A Taoiseach standing up to the British Government on all these issues on which it is currently in default - issues of equality, unity and rights, which the British Government is denying people - would really be new politics. Could the Taoiseach explain to the Dáil why he did not do this?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: I loved it.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)

Gerry Adams: I was not assured.