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- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: This appalling decision under a Labour Party Minister makes a mockery of that party's past commitment to ensuring young people attending school would have the proper supports available to them to reach their full potential. In recent days the EU President, the French President and the German Chancellor have proposed wide-ranging changes to the EU treaty. They are not hiding behind anyone and...
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin fundamentally rejects any further loss of fiscal powers. We will oppose efforts to facilitate this and demand that, despite clear efforts by the EU leadership and the Government to avoid holding a referendum, citizens have their say. If the Government was clear on these issues and stood up for Irish interests, it would have spelled out its position, but its refusal to do so...
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Their governments might be larger, but this does not mean they are right. We should not tug the forelock towards them.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: In our debate last week the Taoiseach indicated his willingness to concede even greater fiscal sovereignty to the European Union. On Sunday night he stated he wanted to be the Taoiseach who returned Irish economic sovereignty.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: He cannot be both or talk out of both sides of his mouth. The people deserve clear leadership. There can be no recovery without job creation and an economic stimulus. Metro north, the DART interconnector and the N2-A5 road project have been cut. These vital projects would have created thousands of jobs and placed the economy in a strong place for recovery.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Ditto with the Government's proposals for next generation broadband services. Sinn Féin would not cut capital spending.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Our capital investment proposals would significantly contribute to Ireland's competitiveness, as well as developing a sustainable, performing economy. Investment in infrastructure not only benefits job creation in the immediate term, it also supplies side benefits for businesses and the State. For those who want to listen, we would fund these proposal from the remaining â¬5.3 billion in...
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: There are repeat offenders, habitual serial shouters who have nothing of substance to say and there is no willingness to listen to what others might have to offer. It is little wonder George Lee left.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Sexism is alive and well in the Dáil, as was demonstrated clearly during Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's response to the Minister for Public Enterprise and Reforem, Deputy Brendan Howlin, on Monday. She was interrupted 65 times during her 30 minute speech. One Fine Gael misogynist interrupted 27 times. These are not my figures; they were given to me by a Government Deputy with whom I spoke...
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Be sure that a motley crew of bad mannered amadáin, lobby fodder for the Government, will not silence us. We have a mandate to be in this Chamber and will make our voices heard clearly. Deputy CaoimhghÃn à Caoláin beat me to it the other day when he told us that he had heard the North mentioned more often in the past nine months than he had at any other time in his 15 years in the...
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Maybe that is too much to ask. At a time when Sinn Féin in the North is attempting, with the active assistance of the DUP, to wrest such powers from London, Labour and the Fine Gael are preparing to give away fiscal powers to the EU. The Taoiseach knows that the cuts in the North come from the Tory budget and it demeans anyone here to use a British Tory Government's cuts inflicted upon...
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 29 November 2011, the reason the VAT deduction on the cost of acquisition of a bus for publicans who operate buses exclusively for taking patrons to and from the public house is limited to buses of more than 16 seats. [39110/11]
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive redundancy payment from the social insurance fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39183/11]
- Written Answers — Consumer Protection: Consumer Protection (7 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the damaging impact on persons health caused by the below cost selling of alcohol; and if he will advocate measures to ban the below cost selling of alcohol. [39111/11]
- European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom tacú leis an rún. I thank the Technical Group for tabling the motion. Sinn Féin has seen the document detailing the European Council's package of measures to be presented to EU leaders in Brussels tonight. It is amazing that I, as leader of an Opposition party, must bring the document to the Dáil. The Taoiseach refused to share the Van Rompuy proposals with the...
- European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: I thank the Deputies. One leader of some of these factions has split every party of which he was a member and put to rest some of these parties forever and a day. All of these latest developments show that what Sinn Féin warned against has come to pass. We argued that the Single European Act and the Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice treaties were all steps in the transformation of an economic...
- European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: It has already been shown.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: In his state of the nation speech - his address on the state of this part of the nation - the Taoiseach stated: "I want to be the Taoiseach who retrieves Ireland's economic sovereignty".
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: Yes, it was amazing. At the weekend, the Taoiseach agreed a new fiscal compact. I mo bharúil, tá an Rialtas tar éis glacadh le coinnÃollacha an troika agus an fiscal compact seo fosta. Tabharfaidh sé cosaint dos na baincéirà agus an éilÃt. Cuirfidh sé leis an mbochtanas agus ghearrfaidh sé tuilleadh cruatan ar oibritheoirÃ. This new effort to regain our sovereignty contains a...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Gerry Adams: I do not believe the Taoiseach does not see the huge contradiction between his assertion about restoring our economic sovereignty and his decision to sign up to giving away even more of our economic sovereignty as part of the fiscal compact. This morning, he shared with us a fine letter he wrote to President van Rompuy. The letter states, among other things, that the Taoiseach intended to...