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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Search and Rescue Service (12 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the number of coastguard units in County Louth; and the number of boats attached to each. [7115/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Search and Rescue Service (12 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his future plans for Clogherhead Coastguard, County Louth, with respect to the provision of equipment and the recruitment, training and upskilling of new members. [7116/13]

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: You said that.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: What have you renegotiated?

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: We have been ripped off.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To put this in context, this is a promissory note inflicted on the Irish people by a Fianna Fáil Government to pay off the private debt of a toxic bank which is now under criminal investigation. Last June the Tánaiste said the Government had succeeded in separating sovereign debt from bad bank debt and that the legacy debt would be dealt with. What the Government has succeeded in...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Deputy McDonald says the Tánaiste did not answer any of my questions, but in fairness he did-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: -----because implicit in what he stated is that the bad debt is sovereign debt. For the record, Sinn Féin voted against legislation on the banking guarantee and the Tánaiste knows this.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: If the Tánaiste is discussing election promises one of the most infamous was Frankfurt's way or Labour's way-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: It clearly is Frankfurt's way. I well remember watching on television the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, stating as far as he was concerned this would not be paid and of course it is going to be paid. I think an indication of the difficulty of the once proud Labour Party, champion of the working class-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: -----is that it is using Fianna Fáil as a guarantor of the validity of its position. Imagine the Tánaiste is using Fianna Fáil to vindicate in some way what he is doing.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: The reason this should not be paid is because the people cannot afford to pay it. With regard to the Tánaiste's little metaphors about Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin is not taking on this debt and neither is the Tánaiste. The ordinary people who send us in here, those who do not even bother voting, those in all parts of the world because they cannot get a job here and the 500,000...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: What will this mean in their pockets and for those who cannot get health services and the young people who are unemployed? Will the Tánaiste tell us whether austerity will end on the back of this?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battlegroups (7 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a progress report on negotiations on Ireland's possible participation in 2015 in the Nordic battle group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6124/13]

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: It is not our debt. The Government’s approach will tie this bad debt to citizens for decades to come – our children and grandchildren will have to pay billions. We are handing a legacy debt to them and we have no idea what the economic and political circumstances will be when the bonds mature. That is wrong. We should not place on the shoulders of children not yet born a...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: There will be no relief in what the Government is doing because it is tied to austerity. There will be no relief from the relentless austerity citizens have endured to bail out bankers. Every billion of the bad debt that is paid is a cut to the health budget, an increase in PRSI, a new property tax, more over-crowded classrooms, more workers out of jobs, more families struggling to make...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: A credible deal is one that will bring relief to citizens. There have been six austerity budgets, which have taken €28 billion out of the economy. Sinn Féin has long argued for the end of the IBRC. What we simply cannot support is turning the bad debts of this bankrupt bank into sovereign debt. It is not our debt. It does not belong to the people of this State and it never...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: Gabh mo leithscéal, the ECB.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Gerry Adams: The Minister should not miss the point I make. We can all be smart alecs but Members should listen to what I say. The Minister should introduce the entire package and deal with people as mature citizens who should be empowered by Government, not denied their rights.