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Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: I am delighted that the Taoiseach has our budget proposals. I would like him to study them. Feel free to plagiarise them. They are proof that there is a fair way to adjust the deficit.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: If the Government can do it with fairness, it can do it by taking the burden off lower and middle-income families. The crux of the strike involving the junior doctors is the issue of patient safety. It is at the core. What the IMO is saying is that there are no sanctions for those hospitals that are not complying. That is what the IMO wants. The Taoiseach is appealing to the IMO to go...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: Inniu, tá na dochtúirí sóisearacha imithe ar stailc agus mar gheall ar seo, tá cinntí i dtaobh na mílte daoine curtha ar ceal. The Government is in breach of the EU's working time directive. It is not alone in this. Deputy Martin was in breach of this EU law when he was Minister with responsibility for health, as was Mary Harney and as is the current...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: The directive stipulates that junior doctors must not work more than 48 hours a week on average. It also requires them to have a minimum of 11 hours rest between shifts. Instead, some of them work as many as 90 hours a week. That is not just bad for doctors because, today, 12,000 outpatient appointments and 3,000 operations have been cancelled. The working time directive is not a new EU...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: Mary Harney, as Minister with responsibility for health, did nothing, and the current Minister for Health is doing nothing.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that no doctor wants to put the well-being of patients at risk, but the failure of the Government to address this issue is putting patient safety at risk. Will the Taoiseach commit to implementing the working time directive fully to ensure junior doctors work safe hours? If so, when does he intend to do this?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that students from the Castlebellingham area who attend a school (details supplied) in County Louth are currently dropped by a service bus a mile from the school grounds; and if he will consider providing a special bus service that drops these students directly to the school; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an incident in respect of a child (details supplied) being formally suspended initially for three days subsequently followed by a ten day extension of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42260/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current guidelines set out by Department with regard to suspension of special needs children arising from alleged incidents within a school facility; the guidelines that exist for the withdrawal of school services for a special needs child; the alternative or supports that will be put in place by the Department during this period; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in detail the procedures in place to determine whether a child’s needs (details supplied) in County Louth are currently being met within the current school attended; if the current school cannot meet these needs, to whom does responsibility fall to provide alternative arrangements; if he will outline if such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 546. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment at the rheumatology clinic in Cork University Hospital; the average waiting time for patients in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 for this unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41993/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to progress the health situation of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; the number of other persons on the list for a gastric bypass; the length of time they will be expected to wait for this procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42221/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 622. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding provided to the Road Safety Authority and the way it is spent. [42350/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 623. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the initiatives the Road Safety Authority has taken yearly from 2011 and how much have they cost. [42351/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (8 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 624. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of cooperation that exists with the Road Safety agencies in Northern Ireland. [42352/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the communications and correspondence his Department has had with the European Commission in the past six months regarding State aid and tax paid by multinationals. [41513/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (3 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will use his powers under section 14 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 to direct NAMA to delay the sale of lands at St. Edmundsbury, County Dublin, so as to enable consideration of the State's interest in these lands in view of the way they might be used to contribute to the social and economic development of the State as per section...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to help put a long-term treatment plan in place in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41718/13]

Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: Chuala mé an scéal brónach faoin iar-Theachta O'Toole. Déanaim comhbhrón lena chlann agus le Fianna Fáil.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)

Gerry Adams: Prior to the summer recess the Taoiseach committed to the publication of the Walsh report into symphysiotomy. We all agree that this procedure, which was inflicted on 1,500 Irish women, was a barbaric practice. The Minister for Health has refused to publish the report until after the Government has taken its decision on a course of action and on legislation. The women need to have all the...