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Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (14 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 542. To ask the Minister for Health the funding the Health Service Executive allocated to addiction support projects in the Louth constituency, including part of east Meath, during 2015. [6847/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Mental Health Strategies (14 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school-based programme focuses on the mental health and well-being of pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6816/16]

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: Tá mé fíor-bhuíoch díot, a Cheann Comhairle, as ucht an deis a thabhairt dom labhairt faoi leasú na Dála. I also welcome the publication of the interim report and commend the committee members involved, as well as the Ceann Comhairle's stewardship of that committee. Some useful progress has been made but much more is required if it is to be as...

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: Yes.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: Yes. I have just a little bit to do yet.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Civil War is quickly set aside in local councils where these two parties divvy up positions between themselves to keep Sinn Féin out. They must get used to the fact that this is a different Dáil and those two parties cannot dominate politics here in future as they used to in the past. What do we do when this vote is over? There is no talk now, post election, about keeping...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: Here we are, 40 days on from the general election and the Dáil has sat twice. The blame for this lies squarely with Teachta Martin and the acting Taoiseach, Teachta Kenny, because of their refusal, or inability, to accept the new political dispensation. I urge them both, therefore, to accept the new realities and that they are the only ones fit to form a Government. For our part,...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: I welcome the news that Deputy Enda Kenny, the leader of Fine Gael, and Deputy Micheál Martin, the Fianna Fáil leader, are to meet this evening to discuss forming a government. It is a matter of some wonder that it has taken them so long to face up to the fact that neither can be elected Taoiseach and will not today if one does not support the other. It is also a matter of grave...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: Teachta Enda Kenny cannot be elected Taoiseach today; neither can Teachta Martin, Teachta Coppinger nor I. For that reason I did not allow my name to go forward. The other nominees should have done likewise. There has been a host of worldwide events that will have an impact on our island, including the EU response to the refugee crisis, the impending Brexit referendum, the Panama papers...

Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: When?

Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: I wish to make a suggestion regarding what can be done until we reach the point where we can change these Standing Orders. A way to set up the sub-committee on homelessness is for the Taoiseach and his Government to propose it. I appeal to him to do that. That would involve all our parties and Independents dealing with this emergency.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 352. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the additional two sergeants and 25 Gardaí appointed to County Louth's Dundalk Division of An Garda Síochána in October 2015 are still in situ, if they are to remain in the Dundalk Division on a permanent basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5566/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmaceutical Sector (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 421. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review by the pharmaceutical board of the drug Orkambi, used to treat cystic fibrosis; to reconsider the decision not to prescribe the drug to those patients who are seriously ill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5374/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 425. To ask the Minister for Health to provide assurances that documentation associated with the symphysiotomy payment scheme will not be destroyed and will be returned by the Health Service Executive to its owners. [5415/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme Data (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made in conjunction with the Health Service Executive in examining evidence-based changes to the primary childhood and schools immunisation schedule; the stage these examinations are at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5478/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme Data (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 439. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made in introducing Bexsero, the vaccine that protects against meningitis B, into the primary childhood and schools immunisation schedule; the status of his announcement that the vaccine will be offered to babies for free as part of the primary childhood immunisation schedule from September 2016; the way in which and when he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme Data (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 437. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made in plans to re-establish tuberculosis, BCG, vaccination programmes for newborn children and infants; if he has resolved the shortage of the vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5479/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 438. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed changes to the tuberculosis, BCG, vaccination programme, following the Health Information and Quality Authority health technology assessment, and subsequent public consultation on proposed changes to the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5480/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 462. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of laundry services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, will remain in-house and not be outsourced to a private company. [5563/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 463. To ask the Minister for Health to incorporate a new laundry facility within the upcoming phase 2 hospital extension at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth. [5564/16]