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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: We make no apologies for that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: So they will not be affected.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: No; we will not do that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: Why does the Taoiseach not answer my question? I have given him an alternative already.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub-committee on social policy has met since Christmas. [8949/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: I have been trying to ascertain what this Cabinet sub-committee on social policy does. It covers a big range of issues that have a direct impact on citizens, but I would like to touch on three of these issues, two in some detail. These concern the cut in respite care and the effect this has had on thousands of families, the crisis in housing, and the mobility allowance scheme and motorised...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach will know that 500 people take their lives by suicide in the State and 300 do so in the North while upwards of 12,000 people self harm. These are the reported cases. The nine cases I raise with the Taoiseach, however, happened while the people were in the care of the State. Concerns were raised by the clinicians who were in senior positions in the area. Contrary to the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: Some nine mental health consultants in Carlow, Kilkenny and south Tipperary have withdrawn their confidence in the HSE's management of the service. As was revealed on RTE's "This Week" programme, these doctors, in a letter to the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, cited nine suicides by service users between August 2011 and January 2013. They included three suicides by in-patients by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the tendering system introduced by Bus Éireann for its school routes works; if there has been any consultation with smaller bus operators regarding this system; the measures in place to ensure all bus routes are divided equally among bus operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26624/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a centre (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if the lease on the premises will be renewed at the end of July; if new admissions have been accepted for September; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26628/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason school secretaries in DEIS schools are recognised by his Department and paid directly by it, whereas school secretaries in other schools are not; his plans to change this to ensure that all school secretaries are treated and paid equally; his plans to give the same equality and structure in the workplace to school secretaries as has...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 354. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to implement the findings and recommendations of the Mahon tribunal.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26658/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 355. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for a commission of investigation or public inquiry regarding planning corruption allegations received by his Department. [26659/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 357. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he did not use the successful bidders for the independent review contract that were to have been appointed, as identified in January 2011. [26666/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 358. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the contents of the sectoral policy division briefing he received with respect to the dossier of allegations of planning irregularities; the results of the internal review conducted by Department officials at that time; and the independent review process he initiated as a result. [26668/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 359. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the 12 actions identified in the original report furnished to him have been carried out. [26669/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 360. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the independent assessment he has commissioned will consider and investigate instances of alleged conflict of interest on the part of local authority officials or others. [26670/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 361. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the consultants appointed have contacted a person (details supplied). [26671/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 363. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to correct the public record regarding the whistleblower (details supplied). [26673/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Consultancy Contracts (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: 356. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 478 of 30 April 2014, the basis of the appointment of MacCabe Durney Barnes consultants; and if there was an invitation to public tender for this contract. [26665/14]