Results 3,081-3,100 of 11,500 for speaker:Gerry Adams
- Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: The residential tenancies Bill is critically important legislation, dealing with aspects of the current housing crisis. It should not be guillotined. Sinn Féin is opposed in principle to the use of the guillotine. The Taoiseach is allowing one hour and a half for each of these Bills. It may be that the time will not be used and that is fair enough. However, what the Government is...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: I cannot hear the Taoiseach. He should speak up, please.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: I cannot hear the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach was mumbling.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach say that again?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach do the same?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has to say more than sorry; he has to fix it.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: I spoke this morning with Daniel Long who is the father of Orlaith, a little six-week old baby girl who was forced to wait 11 hours in the accident and emergency department of Cork University Hospital for a bed. Orlaith, with her father and mother, Debbie Looney, was referred to hospital as she was unable to hold her bottle down. She kept getting sick and she showed signs of dehydration....
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: I have no doubt the Taoiseach is sorry but that is not good enough. He is five years in that seat as the Taoiseach of a Government which made all these promises. This morning, I also spoke to Denise Tuohy who has been told that she has to pay €75 a day for being on a trolley in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. Denise spent four days in hospital. To make matters worse, her...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: Denise now owes €700 in medical bills. She told me that the nurses were fabulous but the system is letting patients down and she is right.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: I will not be long.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: She says she feels degraded. She has worked all her life and she has paid taxes. She says this is not about her; it is about older people and youngsters like her son, Jake. She is being released from hospital this afternoon and then she has to bring her son to the doctor.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: If she has to bring him to the hospital, she will have to pay again and the Taoiseach is responsible for this. He is responsible for a health service in chaos and there is no point in him saying he is sorry. The fact is he is in charge and the reality is that the Government, led by Fine Gael and supported by the Labour Party-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: -----will not adequately resource our hospitals because they do not believe in a public health model. Is this not why accident and emergency department overcrowding is getting worse? Is this not why citizens, including Denise, her son Jake and a little baby like Orlaith, are treated like second class citizens in the Taoiseach's two-tier health service?
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: Ta ceist amháin faoi Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill. Ta ceist eile on the promised emergency legislation in respect of the commission of investigation into the IBRC. The Taoiseach's promised to establish a citizens convention to discuss changes to the Eighth amendment of the Constitution. On the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill, yesterday the Taoiseach...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: Is that what the Minister of State, Deputy Sean Sherlock, said?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: Come on Seán - shame on you.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: Come on. We are talking about citizens of the State.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Dec 2015)
Gerry Adams: The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.