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National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: For years Sinn Féin has raised concerns about the sale of NAMA's loan books, including its Northern loan books. I have raised the issue with the Taoiseach on several occasions. It is not just an issue about the North or, as the Tánaiste described it, just a Northern tale; rather, it is a national tale. The revelations, which the Minister conceded in his remarks today, that an...

European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: I endorse the Taoiseach's commendation of the Naval Service, most recently in respect of the crew of the LE Samuel Beckett, who rescued 102 people on 15 October. Tá siad ag déanamh sárobair. Táimidne uilig agus tá muintir na hÉireann fíorbhuíoch agus fíorbhródúil as na mná agus na fir ar an long seo. Before the last European...

Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 is to update and reform our outdated law which governs decision making by people whose capacity may be impaired. It is also intended to replace the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871, which is the basis for most of our system. We need a clear legal framework which guarantees that citizens with impaired mental capacity have rights. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach is aware that there is a concern about the expanding power and role of the Economic Management Council, EMC. It was originally established, as the Taoiseach has outlined, with the status of a Cabinet committee to manage the Government's programme on economic planning, budgetary matters and banking policy coming out of the crash. I can understand, to a certain degree, the logic...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: How many meetings, if any, has the EMC had with the banks in the last year?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: It is the same point-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: -----because there are no minutes of two meetings which-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: If I understand it, this is about documenting decisions-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: Fair enough. I make the point that the commitment was given by the Taoiseach that he would end the practice up until then of not minuting meetings, whereby no record was kept of ministerial involvement in an issue and resulting decisions. Famously, this was the case over a range of meetings between Ministers and, in this particular case, the former Minister, Mr. Hogan, and Bord Gáis...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Economic Management Council has met since the new year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22957/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will confirm that the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland briefed the Economic Management Council on the possible implications of a Greek exit from the European Union and the euro; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31705/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: I want to quote from the programme for Government which commits the Government parties to bring an end to the "unacceptable executive practice where no record is kept of ministerial involvement with an issue and resulting decisions". I am also reminded of the Taoiseach's first speech in the House as Taoiseach, when he told us and the people of the State:today I enter into a covenant with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Civil Service Management (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: I have one or two quick questions, although the Taoiseach may have dealt with the matter in his first answer. The minutes of the board are available on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, but I can only find records up until May. Were any meetings held after May? If so, when can we expect the minutes of these meetings to be posted? The Taoiseach made the point...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: Society in the North has been on a journey from conflict to peace, and it is the responsibility of all political leaders to help to complete that journey. It is clearly not a task for a hurler on the ditch like the leader of Fianna Fáil. I wish he would do everyone a service and for once engage positively on the North and the necessary process across this island. Today, I attended...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: With respect, the Taoiseach does not take my point about inequality. These people are treated in a shameful way. Babies on the side of the road, no toilet facilities, no water, no beds, no prospects and no hope. That is how they are treated. It is good that the flag is flying at half mast, but this week the Connors family will bury loved ones: Thomas, Sylvia and their children Jim,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: 387. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 518 of 26 May 2015, if she will provide an update on the investigation by her Department into the new evidence recently provided by the Stardust Victims Committee; when this work will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36531/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (14 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: 78. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda in County Louth; if it is a transitional care unit exclusively; and the number and type of beds and places it currently provides. [35921/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (14 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: 79. To ask the Minister for Health the number and type of beds and places provided by the Cottage Hospital in County Louth, for each year since 2010. [35922/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (14 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: 80. To ask the Minister for Health if the Cottage Hospital in County Louth has achieved the Health Information and Quality Authority 2015 standards. [35923/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (14 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Ardee in County Louth; if it is exclusively a long-stay facility; and the number and type of beds and places it currently provides. [35924/15]