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Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (27 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider allowing groups involved in the community first responder schemes in association with the Health Service Executive national ambulance service, to be exempt from VAT on the equipment purchased by them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10193/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (27 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: 251. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances surrounding the incident in the Drogheda area on 18 February 2014 when it took an ambulance 40 minutes to arrive to the scene of an emergency at St Joseph's NS, Meel, which is located approximately four minutes away from the regional hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10098/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (27 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: 253. To ask the Minister for Health the locations at which the ambulances were stationed covering the Drogheda area at the time the incident at St Joseph's NS, Meel occurred on 18 February; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10100/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (27 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances that were in place on 18 February 2014 to cover the Drogheda and Navan areas. [10099/14]

Post Office Network: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: The post office network is hugely important to the life of rural Ireland and to many citizens living in urban areas. This is as true in my own constituency of Louth as it is everywhere else in this State. The closure of Garda stations, local post offices and the transport systems, as well as the shutting down of rural schools, is tearing the heart out of rural communities. Economic...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: I asked about voting rights for Irish citizens living overseas when I raised the programme for Government commitment on the Constitutional Convention with the Taoiseach yesterday. The Taoiseach told me that the deadline for dealing with the recommendations of the convention was six months. My understanding is that it is four months and the convention's fourth report on Dáil electoral...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: That is the Government Whip, a Cheann Comhairle. I know I always ignore him but that is to set an example.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: He said: "I’ll tell you something, Maurice, and this is just personal advice to you, if Shatter thinks you’re screwing him, you’re finished." The person who said that is now gone. Could we be given an explanation? Could the Taoiseach, who announced this to the Dáil, explain under what terms of reference, what rules or what protocols this man was dismissed?

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: Which ones?

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: It was because he did not answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: I want to put three issues to the Taoiseach followed by a question, all arising from the statement made today by the Minister, Deputy Shatter. The fact is, and Teachta Martin has dealt with this to some degree, that the Minister accused Garda Sergeant Maurice McCabe of not co-operating. That is clear. He did not take the opportunity to rectify that during his statement. In the Committee...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: Of course the allegations in the dossier are very serious but they are allegations. They are deeply wounding and traumatic for the victims' families and we need to appreciate all of that, but it is the Government's handling of these allegations which has caused the erosion of public confidence. If the Taoiseach misses that, he misses everything. We end up operating here in a bubble,...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: May I say at the outset that while I disagree with the Minister on many issues-----

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: Perhaps I could have the Minister's attention, please.

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: What I want to say, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, is important but I do not want to cut in on the Minister's conversation with his colleague. I am sorry for interrupting the Minister, Deputy Noonan.

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: While I disagree with the Minister for Justice and Equality on many political and ideological issues, I respect the reforming focus he has brought to the necessary eradication of many outdated and inappropriate social anomalies in our system that work to the disadvantage of citizens. I wish to state as much clearly on the record. However, on this issue the Minister has failed miserably....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Marching Season (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the conversations he has had with the British Government in respect of the upcoming Orange Order marching season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8941/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to the First and Deputy First Ministers of Northern Ireland on recent developments in Northern Ireland. [8942/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: 44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has met the Finucane family in recent months. [8945/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (26 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: 166. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason An Garda Síochána is refusing to provide the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland with a copy of the journal and with access to mobile telephones which belonged to a person (details supplied) and which remains in the possession of An Gardaí Síochána. [9822/14]