Results 4,001-4,020 of 11,500 for speaker:Gerry Adams

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: I asked the Whip and Taoiseach yesterday when the documentation would be published. That is a reasonable question. The Whip refused to answer the question. The committee on transport and communications, including members of the Labour Party and Fine Gael, agreed and asked that this issue be brought back to the committee. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle can see the contempt that the Government...

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: I compliment the Government on what was a classic case of media management yesterday.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach refused to answer questions put to him on a range of vital issues about jobs and outsourcing, compulsory redundancies and the so-called commitment made, which will only last seven years. What will happen then? It will be a case of sin é. While the Taoiseach was refusing to answer any of those questions, at the same time, the media were being briefed. Then we had the...

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: It is true that the Government is finishing the work begun by Fianna Fáil, but that is another issue entirely. What always strikes me is the huge arrogance of the Government in its refusal to have a debate on these issues. Will the Chief Whip explain when we will receive the documentation and when we will see the details? Some 15,000 deferred pensioners were robbed by the Government....

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: Will the Chief Whip, please, have the manners to respond to the questions being put to him? When will all of the documentation be put before the Members of the House?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 191. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of complaints regarding the manner in which public lands at Charlesland in Greystones in County Wicklow, potentially worth in excess of €20 million, were handed over to developers (details supplied) in 2003/2004 without any consultation with elected members of the Wicklow County Council or any...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of allegations that a recently retired Wicklow county manager and a county councillor (details supplied), were involved in the signing of contracts for the exchange of public lands at Charlesland in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21008/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of a complaint regarding the controversial intervention of his predecessor (details supplied) to stop a High Court action in late 2011, which prevented controversial information of alleged corruption by authorised officers of Wicklow County Council from emerging in evidence; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of complaints regarding the involvement of Wicklow County Council officials, public representatives and agencies, including the Industrial Development Agency and the National Roads Authority, in preventing a person (details supplied) from developing a data centre, for which that person had planning...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received complaints regarding the disappearance of a file relating to allegations of possible planning corruption in County Wicklow from his Department in September 2014, which was handed into his Department by a person (details supplied) on 2 September 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21012/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 197. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on complaints that a file relating to allegations of possible planning corruption in County Wicklow, which was delivered to his office and placed in his in-tray, was taken from his office during the night, without authorisation and before he had an opportunity to read it; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 198. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of statements that he ordered a search of his Department's offices, to be headed up by the Secretary General of his Department and the head of departmental security, to discover the whereabouts of a missing file; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21014/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he did not instigate a Garda Síochána investigation into the taking of documents from his office in September 2014, in view of the fact that a search of his Department for the file was unsuccessful and in view of the fact that at the time this file was taken from his office there would have been...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Illegal Dumping (27 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of complaints in relation to illegal dumping at Whitestown in west County Wicklow and of the failure of Wicklow County Council to remediate the site, as required by the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21009/15]

Order of Business (26 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has said the marriage Bill will be ready or enacted before the summer recess, which means that it will be taken before the end of July. That is a very tight timescale. We all celebrate very much the compassionate decision taken in the referendum in favour of equality and inclusivity, but will the Taoiseach give a complete assurance that the Bill will be published before the...

Order of Business (26 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: What I am putting to the Taoiseach is that there are major pressures on the institutions in the North. This is not solely about the threatened cuts to welfare payments but also about the Tory Government's planned cuts to budgets. The Taoiseach is equal co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement. Has the Government raised these issues or concerns with the British Government? Will the...

Order of Business (26 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach engage directly with the British Prime Minister and remind him that the Good Friday Agreement is a binding international treaty and that the commitments entered into in it must be implemented?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Irish Language (26 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: Níl na moltaí sa Bhille. Ar lámh amháin-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: Does the Taoiseach consider that is okay?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Irish Language (26 May 2015)

Gerry Adams: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on Irish and the Gaeltacht last met. [2156/15]