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Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: What are you about?

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Ask Deputy Róisín Shortall about that.

Topical Issue Debate: Report on Murder of Pat Finucane (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: No more than anybody else here, I have not read the full report. However, I was briefed on it by Paul Maskey, one of our MPs, who went to London and had prepublication notice of the report. Let us not mess about with this. I commend to the Taoiseach and to every Teachta Dála here the book written by Frank Kitson which deals with counterinsurgency operations in some detail. To...

Topical Issue Debate: Report on Murder of Pat Finucane (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I wish to commend the family of Pat Finucane on their courage and diligence in demanding a public inquiry into his killing. I want to be very mindful of all those who have died or been injured as a result of the conflict, regardless of who the perpetrators were. The de Silva review into Pat Finucane's death in February 1989 concludes that there was no overarching state conspiracy but accepts...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Tánaiste and the Taoiseach seem to have a difference of opinion on comments made by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, that the Government will not pay the €3.1 billion promissory note due on 31 March. The Government seems to have developed a habit of sending the wrong or mixed messages to its masters in the European Union. Sinn...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: In every part of the State citizens are discussing this legislation at length, except in this institution, which is responsible for bringing in the legislation. The Taoiseach offered several reasons for rushing it through. He said that we had to get our business done because this had to go to the Seanad. It is up to this Chamber to order our own business. The Taoiseach does not even want...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: This Bill is extremely controversial. The Government TDs must have the opportunity to come in here and argue for it and we certainly want to argue against it. We have put down a series of amendments to it and the Minister has even put down amendments to it. I acknowledge some extra time has been allocated but we need days to be allocated for this. We are cutting the jobseeker's benefit,...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: That is misleading the Dáil.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Yesterday I asked the Taoiseach a number of appropriate and pertinent questions about the Government's cuts to the incomes of lower and middle-income families, to child benefit, maternity benefit and particularly the respite care grant. His practice increasingly in defending bad policy decisions which are scrutinised by Sinn Féin is cynically to use the recent conflict in the North as a...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I want to have all of these issues debated in this Chamber. I also want to have this bad budget debated in an informed way. My specific appeal to the Taoiseach yesterday was to reverse the despicable cut to the respite care grant. He did not answer me and I am making the appeal again. I know the Taoiseach does not like me putting these questions, so he should forget about me for a second.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I am sure he has read in today's Irish Examiner the letter from Mr. Pat O'Mahony, husband and carer to Margaret, who wants the Taoiseach to reverse the cut to the respite care grant. Will the Taoiseach respond to Mr. O'Mahony? Let us forget about Sinn Féin and all of these other issues. Here is a citizen writing to the Government and asking for these cuts to be reversed. Will the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach should respect our mandate.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach's opening sentence gives an insight into the Government's thinking. Did the Taoiseach and his colleagues give this matter careful consideration? If he missed it, if it did not come on his agenda for some reason or other, that would at least have been understandable, but it seems he did give it careful consideration after all. He does not, however, seem to have given careful...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I am asking the Taoiseach again to reflect on this.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: This is not him being tough - in fact, it is the easy choice. Being tough would be standing up to the golden elites, the financiers and the big people in our society, not the small people.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: He invites the Taoiseach to switch places with him for a short time.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: What about bankers' pensions?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement that Irish Bank Resolution Corporation is to sue a company (details supplied) for actions it took during its time as auditors of the bank in advance of its nationalisation, if he will detail if he was consulted in advance of this decision being made. [55914/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 on the 28 November 2012, if in view of the changed banking environment in Ireland since 1991 he intends to legislate to protect homeowners in the event a financial institution in Ireland does not comply with the voluntary code in the transfer of its residential mortgages; if he is concerned that the transfer of buy to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (12 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of the 28 November 2012, the reason it is the case that the increase in pay for Irish Bank Resolution Corporation employees which according to the Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank in his statement in the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on 31 October 2012, was for a limited number of persons is...