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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (11 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies currently in mental health nursing positions; he location of these vacancies; and if those vacancies are currently covered by agency or other staff [55641/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if the €35 million for mental health services is in addition to the €35 million for mental health announced last year; the amount of the €35 million allocated for mental health in 2012 that was spent on mental health services [55640/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (11 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies currently in mental health nursing positions; he location of these vacancies; and if those vacancies are currently covered by agency or other staff [55641/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if the €35 million for mental health services is in addition to the €35 million for mental health announced last year; the amount of the €35 million allocated for mental health in 2012 that was spent on mental health services [55640/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (11 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies currently in mental health nursing positions; he location of these vacancies; and if those vacancies are currently covered by agency or other staff [55641/12]

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Where, exactly, is the Government taking us and what are the social consequences of the Government's austerity policies? The Irish League of Credit Unions revealed several months ago that the number of people who are left with €100 or less at the end of each month has risen to over 1.8 million. Where will these citizens find the money for the Taoiseach's family home tax or to deal...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: There are 160 retired bankers from the covered institutions who are receiving annual pension payments in excess of €100,000 per year.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Many of these are not even 70 years old? Seán Fitzpatrick is not 70 and neither is Brian Goggin, Eugene Sheehy or Colm Doherty.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: What of the former Ministers who bailed out these bankers? Former taoisigh are living the high life on lavish pensions while ordinary people bear the brunt of the crisis they created. There was no impediment to cutting the pay of bankers, Ministers, special advisers or the Taoiseach himself in the budget. The Government did not do that. There was no impediment to cutting bankers' pay.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have much to talk about but this is my time to say something. Sinn Féin presented the Government with legislation last month that would enable the State to claw back a large amount of the money paid to bankers without breaking any contracts, merely by applying a levy on excess payments. The Taoiseach did not...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Under the proposal from the Labour Party and Fine Gael, child benefit cuts of €10 for the first and second child, €18 for the third child and €20 for the fourth and following children, will be introduced.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: This means a family of four children will be down €58 per month in child benefit cuts alone and a family of 6 children will be down €98. That is a lot of money and will have a crippling effect on families dependent on it. Children and the young families have borne the brunt of the budget. Less than one month since the passage of the children’s referendum, the reality of...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Bhuel, éist agus foghlaim. The Taoiseach has cut €325 from more than 77,000 families. Some 20,000 of those families receive no other support from the State for providing full-time care for a family member. How low can one get? That is scandalous and shameful and certainly not a fair measure in a budget that was trumpeted as fair. Before the last general election, Labour and...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Government could have brought forward a fair budget. This, however, was not a fair budget. Tá a fhios ag an Taoiseach nach raibh sé deacair na roghanna cearta a dhéanamh. Rinne an Rialtas na roghanna míchearta arís, áfach. Cén fáth? Sinn Féin has shown how in our fully costed alternative budget, yet the Taoiseach chose to ignore this....

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I sat here in complete silence and listened to the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Leader of Fianna Fáil. The other Deputies may not like what I am saying but they should at least listen. I can say as someone who comes from the North that there is no property tax there. Sin é. The Deputy is telling fibs.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Many families in the State will not be able to pay this tax. I am putting the Taoiseach on notice that from today, Sinn Féin will be actively campaigning to resist the introduction of this unfair tax on the family home. It is not yet law and it can be stopped. Sinn Féin has an alternative that is fair, namely, a wealth tax that is levied on the property of the wealthy. The...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Shame.

Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the right to join trade unions includes a right to bargain collectively, and the Government has committed to reform legislation on workers' rights to allow that. The Taoiseach knows that now more than at any other time workers must have their rights to collective bargaining enshrined in law and protected. Does the Government remain committed...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Even on the cusp of taking a further €3.5 billion out of the economy, would the Taoiseach not concede that austerity is not working?

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Second, will the Taoiseach not state straight out the Government did not equality-proof this budget? The Taoiseach is in a position to state that in so far as it could, the Government either equality proofed it or did not.