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Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach wants the people to serve the economy.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach's starting point in dealing with this issue must be that the health service for which he is responsible is in total chaos. Sin é; that is the truth of the matter. Last year was the worst year on record for patients in terms of the indignity and distress of waiting on hospital trolleys. The European health consumer index published recently found that this State had the...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: -----they would have a right to health care based on their health needs. If citizens were treated properly in this centenary of 1916, the Government would be obliged to guarantee not only the right to proper health care but also the right to dignity and respect. To do so, it would have to build a public system, but it refuses to do this. That is the nub of the problem. The Government's...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: Mo cheist is as follows.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: After five years in office, will the Taoiseach give a straight answer as to the reason the Government refuses to develop a universal health service for all that is free at the point of delivery and paid for through progressive taxation?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: That is the question the Taoiseach should answer, and he should ignore the hecklers behind him. Why does the Government not develop a system of universal health care for all, one that is based on equality and health needs and paid for through progressive taxation?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: That is a different issue.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: 181. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is sufficient staffing and expertise in the technical departments of local authorities to deliver increased build in social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3384/16]

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: A shopping mall.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the European Union leaders' summit in Brussels in Belgium in mid-October 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42208/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when he last met with the German Chancellor, Ms Angela Merkel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42225/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: 6. To ask the Taoiseach who within the Government has responsibility for preparing the Government’s political, economic and policy arguments against British Government proposals on European Union membership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44676/15]

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: Twenty-eight houses last year.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: Dear John letters.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: Only a bit of it.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: My question was about building. The fact is that in the first nine months of 2015, only 28 local authority houses were built. Sin é. That is the truth of it. The buzzword or weasel word the Taoiseach used was "delivery". He spoke about delivering. He said there was a need to build houses by 2020 and 2021 while on his watch now tens of thousands of families are in need of a home....

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: The scale of the Government's failure to deliver on this and other issues is stark. Instead of announcing the same plans over and over again, the Government must acknowledge that there has been a decline in the construction of social housing in every consecutive year since it has been in office. That is chaos upon chaos for the families involved. There are more than 100,000 applicants,...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: Where is the report?

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Gerry Adams: So there is no crisis.