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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (3 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the cost per bed in each of the public nursing home units in County Louth; if the cost of beds in St. Joseph's in Ardee, County Louth has increased or decreased since the Health Service Executive decided to withdraw respite care from St. Joseph's and close a ward [42167/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Broadcasting Service Provision (3 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the plans being put in place to ensure SaorView will be available in all Health Service Executive residences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42172/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42188/12]

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Ceist faoi reachtaíocht atá fógraithe. I wish the Minister of State, Teachta Alex White, well in his new position.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I wish him luck. He will need all the luck he can get, given the way Deputy Shortall was dealt with. The new Minister of State has a hard job to do and I wish him luck with it. Last week, Deputy MacDonald asked the Taoiseach whether statutory power for primary care had been delegated to the former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, and he replied that he thought that it had not been.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I think it is but I will be bound by the Chair's instruction. Will the Taoiseach confirm whether statutory power for primary care has been delegated to the new Minister of State, Deputy White, or whether the Government plans to bring forward such a statutory instrument? Has the programme for Government been changed, given Deputy Shortall's assertion that it is not being implemented? Does...

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom cur leis an méid a dúirt an Taoiseach agus an Teachta Martin faoin scéal brónach seo i dtaobh báis P.J. Morley. I wish to extend sympathy to the Morley family. Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: On a brief point of information.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: My information is that Marian Price's health has not improved.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I have read the doctors' reports.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I appreciate that. Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. I very much welcome his assertion that the Government will continue to improve co-operation across the island on a range of issues. Like the Taoiseach, I join in commending the customs service and the Garda Síochána on the arrests and confiscation of equipment in diesel laundering plants. It always strikes me, including with regard to what...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to London during the Olympic Games. [37962/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any bilateral meetings he held with political or business leaders during his visit to London during the Olympic Games. [37963/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach his plans to meet the British Prime Minister David Cameron. [41487/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Members on this, the Opposition side of the House were taken by the Taoiseach's correction of Deputy Pringle to the effect that austerity rarely works. It is reassuring to hear that austerity rarely works.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I understand. I do not think the Taoiseach sees the irony of that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I join the Taoiseach in commending our Olympic and Paralympic heroes, who represented our island magnificently. I also thank the Taoiseach for his response. It strikes me, in terms particularly of the North, the peace process and agreement between the Irish and British Governments, that the Irish Government does not appear to have any real strategy for engagement. I welcome the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: -----put together a report which was presented to Mr. Blair. The former Prime Minister, Mr. Blair, told us afterwards that this played a pivotal part in his change in attitude. I suggested to the Taoiseach in my letter that he ask civil servants to use the expertise available to the Government to draw up comprehensive reports on all accessible information on the Ballymurphy massacre, the...