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Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: It is a fact that policy on long-term illness medical cards has been changed. Very sick citizens, including very sick children, should have the right, without equivocation, to a medical card. I wish to raise a different issue with the Taoiseach. As he knows, US diplomats Richard Haass and Meghan O'Sullivan are conducting intensive discussions on outstanding aspects of the Good Friday and...

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I heard Margaret Irwin from Justice for the Forgotten give her view on this matter. She more or less expressed the same view as the Taoiseach on the different impressions victims and their advocacy groups have on these matters. Of course, there are many matters, including the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, where the British Government has been indicted...

Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: The programme for Government commits to greater all-Ireland co-operation to accelerate recovery and the creation of jobs and to identify new areas of North-South co-operation. The Good Friday Agreement underpins this. Last week, the Taoiseach indicated support for the Narrow Water bridge. Since then, there has been a withdrawal of the offer from the special EU programmes board, SEUPB, for...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom mo chomhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann, bean agus teaghlach Paddy Power ar fad a chaill fear chéile, daid agus daideo. Ba mhaith liom mo chomhbhrón a dhéanamh fosta le Fianna Fáil, mar chaill siad fear mór. Ní raibh aithne agamsa ar Paddy Power agus is mór an trua é sin, go háirithe tar éis a léigh mé faoin fear...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: Tá mé ag caint faoin pholasaí.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: Táimid uilig go maith, ach táimid ag caint anseo faoi pholasaí agus faoin straitéis. Níl an Rialtas ag leanúint ar aghaidh leis an straitéis. Sin an fhírinne. Creidim an Taoiseach nuair a deireann sé go bhfuil grá mór aige dár teanga dúchais, ach níl an cheist chomh simplí sin. Bhí Conradh na Gaeilge isteach...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: Táimid ag caint faoin nGaeilge i nGaeilge anois. Níl mo chuid Gaeilge rómhaith. Tá mé fós ag foghlaim. Tá mé ag déanamh mo dhícheall. Is í sin an fhadhb mhór atá ann. Táimid ag caint faoin nGaeilge i nGaeilge. Ní dhéanann muid ár gcuid gnó anseo sa Dáil trí mheán na Gaeilge ach...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: Níl mé sásta leis an bhfreagra sin. Ní bhuaileann an coiste Comh-Aireachta go rialta mar nach bhfuil an Rialtas seo dáiríre faoin Ghaeilge. Is í sin an fhírinne. Go háirithe, níl an straitéis 20 bliain á chur i bhfeidhm ar scor ar bith. Chuir an Rialtas stad le toghchán Údarás na Gaeltachta. Bhí sé i...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: Tá na daoine óga san Astráil.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: As I understand it, the role of the Cabinet committee on European affairs is to provide the Taoiseach and the Government with strategic direction, coherence and co-ordination on European affairs. That is obviously an important function. In preparation for today, I went on the website of the Department of the Taoiseach and the members of the committee are listed. Lo and behold, it includes...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Irish and the Gaeltacht has met since the beginning of the year. [40731/13]

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: Tá sé soiléir d'achan duine nach bhfuil sé ceart ná cóir go bhfuil daoine áirithe i gcúpla áit áirithe atá ag fáil pá atá i bhfad ró-ard. Tá sin ag briseadh rialacha an Rialtais. Dúirt an Taoiseach nach raibh a fhios aige faoi seo. The master of the of the Rotunda is receiving a package of more than...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: Is it not part of the problem that the Cabinet is in breach of Government guidelines in the pay being awarded to some special advisers? Is that not a difficulty for the Government? Some of the reports in the media suggest the Department of Health has been aware since at least 1998, although I do not know the truth of that. The reports indicate that from 1998 some of these organisations...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Good Friday Agreement (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the date which has been agreed to set aside to hold a week long debate on the outworking of the Good Friday Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47676/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Budgets (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the budget for the Anglo-Irish division of his Department for each year since 2010; and any proposed budget reductions currently under consideration for 2014. [49348/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Stability Mechanism (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the German Government rebuff to a letter from the Taoiseach to EU leaders asking that the ESM be used retrospectively on Irish banking debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47688/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Stability Mechanism (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance the EU leaders that have indicated support for the demand of the Taoiseach that the ESM be used to retrospectively recapitalise Irish banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47689/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Stability Mechanism (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the decision by the EU Council to reduce the role of the ESM in any future recapitalisation of banks; the way the proposed new rules will affect any retrospective recapitalisation of Irish banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47690/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: North-South Implementation Bodies (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: 271. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total budget for each All Ireland Body established under the Good Friday Agreement for the years 2010 to date in 2013; and any proposed budget reductions to the these bodies currently being considered. [49347/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: European Council Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Gerry Adams: 274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the withdrawal of EU funding for the Maze Long Kesh site has been raised at the recent European Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47685/13]