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- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Banking (11 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: 1752. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made with regard to the planned new model of community banking through post offices based on models (details supplied) as outlined in the programme for Government. [38501/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Banking (11 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: 1753. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made with regard to the post office network motion dated 16 November 2016 with regard to a new community banking service operated by An Post based on models (details supplied). [38502/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (11 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: 2010. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments in respect of local government reform, in particular the promised report to Government and the Houses of the Oireachtas by mid-2017 on potential measures to boost local government leadership and accountability; if he will further report on...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Question Heading for question(s) 2047,2048,2049,2050 (11 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: 2047. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households in receipt of housing assistance payment by county. [38495/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Question Heading for question(s) 2047,2048,2049,2050 (11 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: 2048. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children in each household in receipt of housing assistance payment, in tabular form. [38496/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Question Heading for question(s) 2047,2048,2049,2050 (11 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: 2049. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons that applied for the housing assistance payment in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, by county. [38497/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Question Heading for question(s) 2047,2048,2049,2050 (11 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: 2050. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated to each county for housing assistance payment in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [38498/17]
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: Go raibh maith agat a Cheann Comhairle agus cuirim fáilte ar ais romhat agus roimh an Taoiseach. Tá súil agam go raibh sos breá agaibh agus go bhfuil sibh réidh go mór leis an obair atá romhainn. Aontaím leis an méid a dúirt an Taoiseach faoi Jimmy Magee. Ba mhaith liom mo chomhbhrón a dhéanamh leis a teaghlach. Mar a deireann an...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: With respect, Taoiseach, it is not good enough. It comes down to what one believes in. One either believes that citizens have rights or one does not. A person with a disability has rights irrespective of the disability. Society must be shaped to meet those needs. This cannot be left to individual Ministers regardless of how well-intentioned they may be. The Taoiseach spoke earlier...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: Does that excuse the Taoiseach's conduct?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: I am not the Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: No. We have raised this with the Offices of the Ceann Comhairle and the Chief Whip. It has to do with what is described on the Order Paper as "an exchange of views with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt" from the European Parliament. I understand that the MPs and MEPs on these committees will be denied their right to speak even though they normally have the right to speak in the committees they are part...
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: We will be faced with a situation where the three committees will meet together and MEPs who are entitled to sit on these committees and who speak at the meetings which they attend will sit here and not be allowed to speak. Is this not ridiculous? How will that look or seem to anyone? The purpose of this meeting is given as an exchange of views. This has nothing to do with the fact that...
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: None of us knew these MPs and MEPs would be barred until we received notice a few days ago. We did not know.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: We can do the business of the Dáil.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: Not agreed.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: I have a ceist faoi the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016. The Taoiseach knows the UN convention was signed by the State in 2007. More than 174 states out of 193 in the UN have now ratified it, but this State has not ratified it. Yesterday, citizens with disabilities, many in wheelchairs, picketed the Dáil...
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “that the Cathaoirleach of the Seanad may make a closing statement at the end of the meeting; and”:“(b) notwithstanding Standing Order 87(c), Members of the Westminster Parliament elected from constituencies in Northern Ireland and Members of the European Parliament elected from constituencies in Ireland, including...
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom é a dhéanamh. First of all, the amendment simply allows for the-----
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Gerry Adams: -----MPs and MEPs to speak. Will I read it, Ceann Comhairle?