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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Resources (10 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a breakdown of the percentage of Ireland's strategic reserves of oil under the auspices of the National Oil Reserves Agency that are held here; the percentage held in other EU states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33688/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (10 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 202. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Referendum Commission will be established for the referendum on the abolition of Seanad Éireann. [28688/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (10 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 238. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the role and function of the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if the NTPF is under the direct relationship with the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33667/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (10 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 239. To ask the Minister for Health if the chief executive officer of the National Treatment Purchase Fund has recently resigned; if he has any plans to replace the CEO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33668/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (10 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 240. To ask the Minister for Health if management of the National Treatment Purchase Fund has been in consultation with staff at the NTPF about their future role within the organisation or the public service; if staff have been offered redeployment opportunities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33669/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (10 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: 249. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 603 of 25 June 2013, if he will provide a breakdown of where the vacancies identified are located and at what grade; the number of posts currently vacant that are to be filled; his plans to fill these vacancies; and the number of these posts that are not being filled as a result of the recruitment embargo. [33836/13]

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: I very much welcome this initiative but my question was whether the Government would consider funding in full the cost of such beacons for smaller vessels. The Taoiseach is bound to know fisherfolk-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: I ask the Taoiseach to resist the temptation to play party political games with this issue because I said in my remarks, as he will recall, that I was a little conflicted about whether I should ignore what Teachta Micheál Martin was saying or whether I should respond to him. I responded by saying: "I have consistently rejected claims that I had any knowledge of or any part in the...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom ceist a chur faoi reachtaíocht atá gheallta. The Government yesterday committed to introducing legislation to provide for mandatory personal locator beacons on small fishing boats. I very much welcome that initiative. There have been too many tragedies, with 55 fishermen dying in the past five years. The Taoiseach is very much aware that fishermen are finding it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: I understand the difficult position of the Ceann Comhairle considering that the Taoiseach answered the question put to him, Question No. 3, by saying he did not discuss the Boston College Belfast oral history project when he was in the college and, therefore, had no statement to make on it. Then we had the leader of Fianna Fáil, Deputy Micheál Martin, going on to make all sorts of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: What is the name of the book?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: I did not bring it in here.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: Did the Taoiseach not hear me a moment ago?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach should not play the same games as Deputy Martin plays.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: Did the Taoiseach not hear me a moment ago, and the last time he raised it as well?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: He will get the same answer all the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: Both of them will play little games.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: I do not intend repeating it again. I have said it once. I do not have to repeat myself all the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: I said it a moment ago.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Gerry Adams: I join the Taoiseach in his welcome for the recent decision by the US Senate to approve a comprehensive immigration reform Bill which has the potential to lift the fear of discovery and expulsion with which many undocumented Irish citizens working in the USA are burdened. I acknowledge that it must get through Congress etc. I recognise in particular the efforts of all who have lobbied on...