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- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Gerry Adams: I do not know whether the Labour Party has taken up an abstentionist policy on Leaders' Questions, or perhaps its members are embarrassed. The sorry saga of the Taoiseach's efforts to impose an additional water tax on households and his establishment of the now totally discredited Irish Water is a metaphor for how this Government functions, or indeed does not function. There was no need to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (6 May 2015)
Gerry Adams: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the status of provision of the pre-school placement special needs assistant resources for children with special needs for the upcoming school year; if there have been any changes to the system of allocation of these resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17475/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (6 May 2015)
Gerry Adams: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that parents of children with special needs fear that they may be faced with reduced resource special needs assistant hours in the upcoming school year; the assurances he will provide to alleviate such fears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17476/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (6 May 2015)
Gerry Adams: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the reason some families have been advised that their children with special needs will be subject to an assessment regarding special needs assistant hours; if there will be an imposed limit of resource hours provided further to such assessments in the upcoming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17477/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (6 May 2015)
Gerry Adams: 328. To ask the Minister for Health if current providers of pre-school placements and associated special needs assistant resource hours will be, or have been, consulted with, in regard to the allocation of resources for the upcoming school year; if the considered opinion of these service providers will be considered, as part of an assessment to allocate resource special needs assistant hours;...
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: I move, although I finished earlier so folks might not have anticipated starting at this time.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: Ní raibh rud ar bith nua i ráiteas an earraigh ar an gheilleagar inné do shaoránaigh nó do theaghlaigh atá ag obair go dian agus atá thíos leis le blianta anuas mar gheall ar an déine ón Rialtas seo. Yesterday's spring statement marked a depressing, boring and tedious continuation of the conservative and deeply destructive political agenda...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: He was though.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: I asked questions.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: He knew nothing about anything.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: Before I put my question, has the Taoiseach any explanation for the absence of the Labour Party from the Chamber?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: Yesterday, when I asked the Taoiseach when the Minister, Deputy Noonan, informed the Taoiseach about his Department's deep concerns over the sale of Siteserv and the other IBRC deals, he did not answer the question directly, but he gave the impression that the Minister did not brief him on these issues. How could that be when this involved hundreds of millions of euro of taxpayers' money and...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: The problem is that I asked the Taoiseach a number of direct questions about his knowledge at different times as this scandal unravelled, but he never answered even one question. He said - I noted this - that it was not compulsory for the Minister to be informed by his officials. However, it is a matter of record that he was informed by his officials and for three years, the serious...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: I am being very careful. I am here to hold the Government to account and I do so within the rules. The strategy began to fall apart when freedom of information replies were given to an Teachta Catherine Murphy. The Minister received a recommendation from his officials to have an independent review of some of these deals, but he refused to do that. Does the Taoiseach agree that the...
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: So are we, but the Minister gets paid more.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: Ciúnas opposite.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: Answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach appears to insist on proceeding with a review into the IBRC scandal in which nobody has any faith. The review is simply an extension of the Government's cover-up of this scandal. When Deputy Pearse Doherty raised questions in 2012 on the handling of IBRC's sale of Siteserv, he was stonewalled by the Minister for Finance. At the same time, officials from the Department of...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: Citizens see the contrast between the Government's attitude to the banks and the political and business insiders of the golden circle, and its treatment of ordinary citizens. Citizens are appalled by the massive write-downs that IBRC has given to private companies. The Taoiseach has no problem with these write-downs but he ensures there are no write-downs for mortgage holders by giving a...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Gerry Adams: When?