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Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Does this just show the state in which we are? What sort of a republic is it that the Government borrows €67 billion from the troika and then gives €64 billion to bad banks, meaning the citizens have to carry the burden they had no part creating? The Labour Party sits idly by while health services are cut even more.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: There will be another €750 million in cuts next year. Last week, the Government gave €1 billion to unguaranteed bondholders. Hopefully, I am getting this point through to the Taoiseach. This is not just a failure of a Minister. If he went tomorrow, it would perhaps be good generally for morale. However, it would not make a blind bit of difference because the Minister is...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: We want the Taoiseach to make good choices.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Gabhaim buíochas don Cheann Comhairle. Mar a deirtear, "chillax" más féidir. Tá an córas sláinte mar phríomhscéal sa nuacht go laethúil anois, le scéalta dona faoi gach lá. Tuairiscí de scannal, billí polaitiúla, scéalta athchóirithe agus áiteanna á ndruidim and no transparency. The Taoiseach is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (10 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when will a decision will issue on an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43591/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (10 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the position that Dundalk, County Louth, held on the list of 200 centres which were identified for proposed primary care centres by officials based on a scoring system based on deprivation levels, their assessment of service priorities in an area and on assessment of available accommodation; the reason Dundalk was not one of the 35 sites announced for primary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (10 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the list of 200 sites that were identified for proposed primary care centres in order of the priority determined by officials based on a scoring system based on deprivation levels, their assessment of service priorities in an area and an assessment of available accommodation [43621/12]

Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Tá ceist agam faoi reachtaíocht atá forógraithe. The Taoiseach will recall his promise before the general election to introduce, as a priority, legislation to abolish upward only rent reviews in the case of commercial leases. Will he update the House on the status of the legislation? Is he aware that many Departments and State bodies are the holders of such leases? I...

Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: In that case, while he is waiting to introduce legislation on this matter, will the Taoiseach make a start by abolishing such clauses in contracts held by Departments and State agencies? The case to which I referred involves a contract with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: As I stated, some of the contracts in question are held by Departments and State agencies. Will the Government explore the possibility of obtaining legal advice on the matter from an tArd-Aighne?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: It is a matter of puzzlement that issues such as the presidential term and the voting age have been designated as matters for consideration by the constitutional convention but the future of the Seanad has not. I do not understand how we can pick and choose between these issues.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Seanad is clearly in need of reform. It is an undemocratic institution which is elected by an elite rather than by universal franchise. Sinn Féin has been saying that for a long time. Substantial reform is required to democratise the Upper House by, for example, making it a place where ethnic minorities such as the Traveller community could be represented, or citizens from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach his plans to abolish Seanad Éireann. [40453/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: That is correct. Leo arrived after me.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I answered the Taoiseach's question very clearly.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin proposed a constitutional convention a long time ago but since then Irish society has been changing - as a result of the impact of the economic crisis, changes within other pillars of the establishment and because of the peace process in the North. The best recent example of this type of convention was the constitutional convention, or conference, in South Africa when that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: One must almost become a forecaster to try to get some sense out of the answers given. The Taoiseach did not even try to tell me the reason for the delay. He has already given the points he has just made in other meetings I have attended on this issue. He entirely avoided the issues of the format on the day, whether Opposition parties will have the opportunity to speak and the list of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress he has made towards the establishment of the Constitutional Convention. [40452/12]