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Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: I did not give it. The Irish Government helped the people in Derry.

Order of Business (7 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I was waiting for you to read out motion No. 11. I may be remiss but I want to put it on the record that this effort to put together participation in the European Union battle group with a 20 minute debate is not sufficient. Sinn Féin has consistently placed on record our opposition to Irish involvement in these EU battle groups. There are clearly elements within...

Written Answers — Prison Deaths: Prison Deaths (7 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will establish an office of prisoner ombudsman to investigate all deaths in the custody of the Irish Prison Service to ensure equivalency of human rights guarantees as part of the State's obligations under the Good Friday Agreement. [6532/12]

Written Answers — Prison Conditions: Prison Conditions (7 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that the current procedures regarding deaths in prison custody comply with the terms of the European Convention on Human Rights. [6531/12]

Written Answers — Commemorative Events: Commemorative Events (7 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 293: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has any plans to develop a permanent exhibition to the famine in the National History Museum of Ireland in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6391/12]

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Ní raibh aithne maith agam ar John Cunningham, ach tá a fhios agam gur eagarthóir an-mhaith ab ea é. Tá mé libhse ar an maidin brónach seo. Tá ár smaointe le muintir Cunningham inniu. Tá sé soiléir go bhfuil an ghéarchéim sna seirbhísí poiblí ag dul i ndonas de bharr an beart gátair seo. Tá sé thar am don Rialtas a bhád a chasadh agus polasaí eile a chur i bhfeidhm....

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Tá a fhios ag an Taoiseach go soiléir.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Caithfidh mé a rá go sílim gur thuig an Taoiseach go breá an méid a dúirt mé i nGaeilge. Tá sé ag magadh fúm, ach sin scéal eile. It is difficult to know which Taoiseach to believe. Is it the Taoiseach who said on RTE radio on Sunday that the transition teams are in place or the one who told us yesterday that they are not in place? These are the transition teams to deal with...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: I asked the Taoiseach if he would consider changing tack and setting aside this austerity policy. He said in his response, if I am quoting him properly, that austerity policies on their own cannot work, but that is all he is giving us. There are no initiatives for job creation. There are no initiatives to deal with any of these matters. Will the Taoiseach lift the recruitment embargo?...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: I welcomed that at the time.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Except the bankers.

Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Tá cúpla ceist ar dtús faoi reachtaíocht atá fógraithe. On 26 January, the Tánaiste told the Dáil the Government is not considering legislation to introduce a system of attachment orders, which would allow money to be taken from wages or social welfare payments so the Government can implement the punitive household and septic tank charges. However, in a written reply to my...

Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: I am advised that the Minister for Justice and Equality said that this would be part of the Fines Bill. I look forward to receiving clarification from the Taoiseach on that. The other issue is that the Taoiseach has promised on a number of occasions to meet with Opposition leaders to discuss the constitutional convention. I have written to him in some detail about that. Second, the...

Private Members' Business: Community Employment Schemes: Motion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: The social consequences of the austerity policies of this Government are evident every single day in the cuts to essential public services, the number of young people leaving our shores, the cuts to DEIS schools, the household charge, the slashing of school guidance counsellor numbers, the attack on rural communities through the septic tank debacle, stealth taxes, the crisis in our health...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: May I begin by wishing the Taoiseach a very happy Valentine's Day?

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: And you too, a Cheann Comhairle.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: I also want to welcome the Government's renewed focus on the jobs crisis, and the Taoiseach's announcement yesterday of a jobs action plan. It is particularly good that he is taking personal responsibility for the delivery of this. I look forward to his reports. I note that this is the third or fourth time the Taoiseach has announced some of these proposals. I am going through this as...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: There is no new money and no meaningful targets have been set thus far. Having pondered the issue, the reason no new money is available is that the Government remains totally committed to this austerity programme. The Government has been in power for almost a year and during that time unemployment has been around 440,000. Some 1,640 businesses have closed and 76,000 citizens have been...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Yet next month the Anglo Irish promissory note will cost the people of this State €3.1 billion. Is that not the problem with the Government trying to tackle this jobs crisis but then giving so much money over to these banks and bankers with nothing meaningfully being put into jobs creation stimulus packages and regenerating the economy? To get some sense of this, how many citizens will be...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach should bear in mind he has money to give to the banks. That is the choice he is making. Bhí an Taoiseach ag tabhairt amach fúm ag caint faoi Ghaelscoil Bharra. Rinne Fine Gael agus Páirtí an Lucht Oibre gealltanas foirgneamh nua a cheadú fá choinne na scoile ansin. Let me be positive, however. It is a good day despite the Taoiseach's rejection of my love earlier.