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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 589. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for outpatient appointments at Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. [21166/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (12 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures carried out in respect of cataract surgeries for each hospital for each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date, in tabular form [21167/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the status of respite services at St. John of God's St. Mary's centre, Drumcar, County Louth; if St. Mary's currently provides respite services; if it will maintain respite services over the summer period; the funding the Health Service Executive allocated to St. Mary's to provide respite services in each of the years 2011 to date; if and why respite...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 741. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to identify the areas in County Louth which do not have high speed broadband; the number of business premises and residential properties which cannot access broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21147/16]

Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Cuirim fáilte mór roimh an rún seo. Níl Ibrahim Halawa ach 20 bliain d'aois. Tá sé faoi ghlas anois ar feadh trí bliana. Tá sé sin thar a bheith mí-cheart agus caithfimid go léir brú níos láidre a chur ar Rialtas na hÉigipte as seo amach. Ibrahim was only 17 when he was arrested, a child, and he has spent the past...

Election of Leas-Cheann Comhairle (Resumed) (7 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Dúirt an Teachta Seán Crowe go bhfuil sé an-bhuíoch do na Teachtaí a thug vóta dó. Ar mo shon fhéin agus ar son an Teachta Crowe, ba mhaith liom mo chomhghairdeas a ghabháil le Pat the Cope. Tá mé an-shásta go mbeidh sé mar Leas-Cheann Comhairle iontach. Go n-éirí an t-ádh leis agus go n-éirí an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (7 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 234. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the services available in County Louth for persons with spinal cord injuries; the community rehabilitation provision that exists in County Louth; the rehabilitation service that exist here for persons with spinal cord injuries who are on ventilation treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20199/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (7 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 246. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the 135 community first responder groups currently operating across the State; the funding that has been allocated to each of these groups each year for the past three years; the level of cross-Border co-operation that exists between these groups in Border counties with similar groups in the North; and if he will make a statement on the...

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Mo bhuíochas don Rural Alliance, mar mhol siad an rún seo agus táim fíorbhuíoch go bhfuil seans agamsa labhairt ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo. Go n-éirí leis an Aire in a phost nua. The provision of high speed broadband to rural Ireland will make a huge contribution to the much needed regeneration of rural communities. It is also clearly the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the recent meetings of the European Council that he has attended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18144/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an Taoiseach. Everybody is now well aware of the real risks to the well-being of our people as a result of the Brexit vote. Yesterday, in his post-Council statement, the Taoiseach acknowledged that too lengthy a gap in the process of negotiation might prolong uncertainty, with negative consequences for businesses and consumer confidence. Yesterday he...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: I agree with the Taoiseach that the visit by Vice President Joe Biden and his clan was a great success. Like the Taoiseach and others here, I have met many who have travelled back home to their ancestral home place. It is always emotional and that was very obvious in the way Joe Biden and his family were met, not least in the Taoiseach's county of Mayo. Along with Deputy Munster, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent contacts with the Government of the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18143/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: On Saturday, protesters took part in a rally on Merrion Square to protest at the rise in car insurance premiums, which have increased by 67% over the past three years. Those involved who have to carry this burden want the Government to establish a task force, similar to the Motor Insurance Advisory Board, MIAB, which was established in the 1990s and whose recommendations led to a 40% drop in...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Fianna Fáil made a very clear election manifesto commitment to scrap Irish Water and they should honour that commitment. The expert commission on water services was dreamt up to get them off the hook and Fine Gael bought into it because it needed the support of Fianna Fáil. Fianna Fáil was centrally involved in the rise and fall of Joe O'Toole and the Taoiseach has been...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Let us have some really new politics. Let us decide to scrap water charges today by putting a motion to the Dáil to relieve households of this punitive tax.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach's Government, aided and abetted by the Fianna Fáil Party, is stumbling from crisis to crisis. There is a calamity in our health system and there is a homelessness and housing crisis that is spiralling further out of control by the day. Citizens are being crippled by a cost of living crisis in rents, mortgages, child care, property tax and car insurance. To make matters...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: They should be scrapped and dealt with here in the Dáil, democratically and decisively. Here is the chance to get something done in this term. Let the people here, the Teachtaí Dála, vote on this issue, to scrap water charges, instead of kicking the issue down the road to an already undermined commission, or, in keeping with the fiction of new politics, does the Taoiseach...

Election of Leas-Cheann Comhairle (Resumed) (6 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: Tá an Teachta Crowe tinn ag an uair seo, ach le cuidiú Dé beidh sé anseo arís sar i bhfad. Ba mhaith liom an Teachta Crowe a mholadh mar Leas-Cheann Comhairle inniu. Tá mé ag ainmniú an Teachta Crowe mar tá sé lán-sásta, agus tá mise lán-sásta, go mbeidh sé in ann dualgais na hoifige sin a chomhlíonadh i...

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: A fortnight ago the vast majority of us who spoke here were hoping for a very different outcome in the crucial vote on whether the North would vote to remain in, or leave, the European Union. Sinn Féin campaigned vigorously for a Remain vote, and the North did vote to remain. However, as a result of the vote in England and Wales, the entire island of Ireland now faces huge challenges,...