Results 4,601-4,620 of 11,500 for speaker:Gerry Adams
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: It now is being stopped at 4 p.m.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: For all of the frivolity from the amadáns in the backbenches-----
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: ----- this is an important issue-----
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: ----- and I am sure those watching in will see how it is being trivialised by some of the hecklers on the back and front benches.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: It is not agreed. We were given an Order of Business earlier today and the Taoiseach read out a revised Order of Business, which we received only a moment ago. This is regarding a very important issue, the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes and certain related matters. We have consistently raised these issues with the Taoiseach. Na Teachtaí Ó Caoláin,...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: As a lapsed teacher, I am sure the Taoiseach will agree with me that learning and education are pillars of society. Many of us, myself included, can point to a teacher or teachers who had a pivotal influence on us as we were pointed in certain directions in our lives' journeys. The teachers do not want to go on strike, but that is what will happen tomorrow, causing great disruption for...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: Why is the Taoiseach taking such a hardline stance? Teachers are the professionals. They are the folks who know about the matter. Given the bind we are in, the Minister will end up sitting down with the teachers. She will return to the negotiating table and the issue will in all likelihood be resolved at some point. We should listen to what the teachers are saying. The implication of...
- Northern Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for their very measured remarks and ask them to use their influence to ensure that regular debates on the North take place here.
- Northern Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach views the North as a foreign country. Rather than facing across the Border and extending a hand of friendship to all the people of the North, he faces away and turns his back on people there. I ask him to reflect seriously on what I am saying. His Government should develop a strategy to fully implement the Good Friday Agreement and other agreements, as it is obliged to do. ...
- Northern Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil le achan duine a bhí páirteach sna comhchainteanna, go háirithe an Aire, an Teachta Charles Flanagan, agus an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Sherlock; na páirtithe uilig; Gary Hart agus ardchonsal na Stáit Aontaithe sa Tuaisceart; agus na daoine a lean ar aghaidh go stuama nuair a bhí cúrsaí deacair go leor agus...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: Tá ceist agam faoin Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill agus Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill. Although I raised elements of this during Taoiseach's questions, I was unsatisfied with the answers he gave. I am reflecting on the fact that in 2013 the Taoiseach apologised unreservedly to the survivors of the Magdalen laundries, said it was a national...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: It is inadequate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if there are protocols in his Department for appointments to State boards; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40963/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: All of us will at least support the broad principle that holding a position on these boards is an honour and an act of public service. The people on boards are there to serve citizens who depend on good governance. The controversy in which the Taoiseach was involved in the appointment of Mr. John McNulty to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art undermined this principle. Apart from...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach said the issue of the Westbank Orphanage had been dealt with. My certain conviction and knowledge is that it has not been and I ask him to clarify this. If it has not been included in the commission's terms of reference, as is my belief, it should be. With regard to the Magdalen laundries, as the Taoiseach said, the women concerned were held in horrific conditions. They were...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: I was making a general point, trying to be inclusive of all the faith communities on the island.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: Not at all.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: Perhaps I missed it, but the Taoiseach did not say when was the last time he had met the leaders of the Christian churches or the Jewish faith. He might want to make this clear. I consider it very welcome that the Taoiseach will meet representatives of the Islamic faith in the time ahead; he has committed to so doing. I met Muslims from the new mosque at Galway a month or two ago. They...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he has held with religious leaders. [39838/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Gerry Adams: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his structured dialogue with religious and faith organisations. [39839/14]