Results 2,641-2,660 of 11,500 for speaker:Gerry Adams
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: The Deputy never asked that.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: The Deputy should let the Minister answer.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin argued for an independent Garda authority, for which the previous Government, of which the Tánaiste was a member, ridiculed us. We argued for it to be established along the lines of the Patten Commission. It was only when the series of scandals erupted that she eventually and reluctantly opted for the model she now has. I wish the commission well but I return to my...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: Yes. Ní bheidh mé ró-fhada, a Cheann Comhairle. The issues we are dealing with here, as the Tánaiste knows, are not trivial, they go to the core of confidence in our policing and justice systems, and all of us have a duty to build confidence in these systems. This is also about the Tánaiste's solemn responsibilities as part of the Government. She says she is...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: I am not asking the Tánaiste to do that.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: We want the Minister to do it.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: Is that a confession?
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: We never asked the Minister that.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: As we all know, the responsibility of the Opposition is to hold the Government to account. The Minister for Justice and Equality has a responsibility to hold the Garda Commissioner to account and is answerable to the Dáil. Sinn Féin wanted the Policing Authority to have more powers. It should be able to hold the Commissioner to account and no one Minister should have this...
- Adjournment Debate: Traveller Accommodation (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: Táim buíoch as an deis a thug an Ceann Comhairle dom caint faoin ábhar an-tabhachtach seo maidir leis an Lucht Siúil. The publication yesterday of the judgment against the State by the European Committee of Social Rights in respect of housing for Travellers is a damning one and must be taken with the utmost seriousness. I welcome the committee's findings as they...
- Adjournment Debate: Traveller Accommodation (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: I will give the Minister my script.
- Order of Business (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: The committee found against the Government.
- Order of Business (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: Tá dhá cheist agam, ceann amháin faoin equality-disability miscellaneous provisions Bill agus ceann eile faoin Lucht Siúil agus an gealltanas i gclár an Rialtais faoin national Traveller and Roma inclusion strategy. Leanfaidh mé ar aghaidh leis an gceist faoin Lucht Siúil ar dtús. The Government signed up in November 2000 to the European Social...
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: I will. As I stated at the time, the Taoiseach was solely responsible for the events that followed and for the unprecedented series of resignations. Let us remember that the most important people are the victims of crimes that were not properly investigated. I put my questions to the Tánaiste again. Will she ask the Taoiseach to make a full and comprehensive statement to the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: Last Thursday, after almost two weeks of selective leaking, the O'Higgins report was finally published. The media management of the report is entirely unacceptable and if I may say so, so are the Minister's answers here today. Mr. Justice O'Higgins found that the internal Garda investigations of complaints in the Cavan-Monaghan division were deficient. He does not say who is to be held...
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: I asked the Tánaiste a series of very direct questions, which she did not answer. We are supposed to be in a new political dispensation. The questions were very straightforward. Has the Tánaiste spoken to the Commissioner about the allegation that the latter instructed her legal team to the effect that Maurice McCabe had acted maliciously? I asked the Tánaiste that question...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 71. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children currently resident in Mosney direct provision centre and the number of children resident there for the past five years. [10393/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue office at the Millennium Centre in Dundalk, County Louth is to be closed to the public from 2 September 2016; the number of persons who have used this walk-in service in each of the past five years; how this change will impact on members of the public and on the staff of the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for the proposed changes to the SOLAS tendering process for contracted training; if the key determining factor in the tendering procedure is the level of turnover achieved by the training providers in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9715/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (17 May 2016)
Gerry Adams: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consultation process undertaken prior to the proposed implementation of changes to the SOLAS tendering process for contracted training; how many of SOLAS existing training providers were included in the consultation; and the selection process in this regard. [9716/16]