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- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: So the Taoiseach does not know.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: Cad é an scéal faoin mBille nua?
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: So none of those Bills will come forward.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: They want a caring society and they want to be treated as citizens but the Taoiseach treats them as fools. He has blustered and bluffed his way through all of this. Apart from the demographic that Fine Gael is targeting at the next election, increasing numbers of people know he will not bring this about because he has no conviction about these issues.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: Yesterday, and again today, the Taoiseach expressed confidence in the Tánaiste. He has little choice, however, as they are in this together, recycling the old politics of cronyism and insider machinations which are the opposite of the democratic revolution the Taoiseach promised. It is time for the Taoiseach to go. I said it yesterday.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has run his race and failed the people. Will he please let the people have their say on the past five years of failed politics, particularly, but not exclusively, on this failure and refusal to bring in the type of reform which he promised?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach and the Government were elected because of the widespread anger at how the previous Government had behaved. He clearly knew that the people wanted equality and transparency and they still do.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach promised to bring this about, but his promises were cynical and not based on any real conviction. It was rhetoric that tapped into the people's hope and desire to have society organised fairly. There is little talk nowadays from the Taoiseach about the Government's five point plan because, of course, it was never a plan but a PR device. On the Taoiseach's watch there has been...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: We have a more divided society, an ever-worsening housing crisis, the closure of Garda stations and post offices, while the health service is in chaos.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach also promised to deliver political reform.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: He promised that every vacancy to fill a paid directorship on a State board would be advertised through the Public Appointments Service. He said the directors of all State bodies would be asked to resign and reapply for their positions within six months of a Fine Gael-led Government taking power.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: None of this happened. The Government stole Fianna Fáil's social and economic policies and also perpetuated its culture of cronyism and political patronage. In the past week the Tánaiste, Deputy Joan Burton, chose to appoint Mr. David Begg as chairperson of the Pensions Authority. The arrogant way in which she did this, irrespective of Mr. Begg's suitability, made a mockery of...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: In my question I tried to contrast the rhetoric as the Taoiseach tapped into widespread public anger and his failure to deliver on the promises he had made. He avoided answering that when he responded and is skirting around the issue. He made detailed promises on political reform. He promised a public appointments Act that has never materialised. Why? The Taoiseach promised a vote in...
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: Yes, they have. I was there yesterday.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: Then rectify it. Do not put them out the street.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Under the Order of Business I usually raise two or three commitments of promised legislation or programme for Government commitments. Today I just want to raise one issue but I want to do it in some detail because of the seriousness of the situation.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: Yes, it is around a programme for Government commitment to deliver on principles of social inclusion for the Traveller community and a commitment by the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality with responsibility for equality, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, that Traveller ethnicity would be a reality. He rightly said this did not need legislation or a...
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: I did try to get a Topical Issue matter on this issue.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: I also wish to raise the review of fire safety in Traveller accommodation that the Government published in December 2015 following the Carrickmines tragedy which said very clearly that nothing in the fire safety review process was intended to be used to address the broader Traveller accommodation issues in a negative way. Clearly this is not a green light to evict Travellers from halting...
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Gerry Adams: I ask the Taoiseach, in keeping with the commitments, if he will make a statement before the Dáil ends, as the Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, promised, to recognise Travellers as an ethnic group. I ask that he request the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government stops the eviction of these citizens.