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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: This year.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach. I know that he has a very full schedule and that the churches are in the front line, doing very good work for charities and working with citizens who are disadvantaged by austerity policies and so on. This year, we have seen the scandal of the mother and baby homes. New facts and the tragic stories of abuse and loss have emerged and continue to emerge. I read over...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet committee on economic infrastructure that have been held in the past three months. [8950/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has just dealt with this issue but I will raise a slightly different angle. The supply of water is an essential element of economic infrastructure and there have been many concerns raised recently about the lack of an out-of-hours emergency service by Uisce Éireann.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: Why was it not?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: Will you explain the rule?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: In those months the issue has emerged.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: I am not.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: I wonder about the merits of questions to the Taoiseach as they are currently organised. We deal with issues that are six or seven months old. The leader of Fianna Fáil and others, including myself, have queried how these questions are ordered and I want to raise an issue concerning an essential element of economic infrastructure only to be told it is not in order.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his openness in the conduct of this business. I will sit down, having once again been "section 31'd".

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: We will get through it very quickly like this.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: Is that so it could be done on the cheap?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: If everybody agreed, we could set aside Standing Orders for a few moments and usefully discuss our Taoiseach's questions-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: May I ask-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: All of what?

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: The Ombudsman for Children, Ms Emily Logan, will shortly publish a report detailing her findings and recommendations on the circumstances in which two children were wrongly taken from their families in Tallaght and Athlone last October. The children - a girl aged seven and a wee boy aged two - were taken from their parents who are members of the Roma community, after it was reported that...

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach for his answer. I welcome the meeting between the Minister, the Acting Garda Commissioner and the two families. These incidents took place against a backdrop of scandalous media coverage of the Roma community. The two cases in this jurisdiction are clear examples of racial profiling by the Garda Síochána and the State. Under the Child Care Act, gardaí...

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach fight the legal case, if one happens?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: 579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing emergency legislation either by ministerial order or statutory instrument that will allow a potentially life-saving anaphylaxis pilot initiative, the first responder anaphylaxis autoinjector programme at UCC, to go ahead. [28474/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: 580. To ask the Minister for Health if he will look again at introducing a scheme to make epi-pens available in schools, workplaces and other public places, similar to the provision of defibrillators; and if he will introduce a scheme to train volunteers as first responders. [28475/14]