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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet sub Committee on Health has met since the beginning of July. [38359/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach the membership of the Cabinet sub Committee on Health. [38360/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he has plans to meet political leaders in the North. [37881/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach if he has been in contact with political leaders in the North since the Dáil recess. [37882/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Taoiseach his plans to meet with the new Northern Secretary of State Theresa Villiers. [40451/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (25 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the initial refusal rates for applications for invalidly pension in County Louth; or whatever geographical breakdown is available. [40515/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Services Provision (25 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 985 of 18 September 2012, when the formal national mapping exercise to determine the exact position in relation to commercial service providers existing and planned broadband service throughout the State will be completed. [40531/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Debtors (20 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of borrowers in the National Asset Management Agency who have one or more performing assets in NAMA; if these NAMA borrowers are allowed recoup income from the performing NAMA asset as well as the salary which the borrower is receiving from NAMA in accordance with their business plans with NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39690/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Debtor Agreements (20 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of borrowers in the National Assets Management Agency who have one or more assets in NAMA that receives rental income from the State, a State owned entity or semi-State entity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39691/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loan Book (20 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance the current estimated value of the National Asset Management Agency’s loan book; if he will provide a breakdown of the value of the US loan book, the British loan book, the European loan book and the Irish loan book, respectively; and if he will provide an update on NAMA plans for the sale of these loan books. [39692/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Debtor Agreements (20 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases in which the National Assets Management Agency allows its debtors to retain part of the income from their income-producing assets to pay overheads including salaries to the debtors themselves; the number of cases in which debtors are receiving salaries; if he will provide a breakdown of the salaries received by these debtors; the number that...

Other Questions: Traveller Community Issues (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce legislation to recognise Traveller ethnicity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39341/12]

Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: As I did yesterday, I commend the Government on its work on this issue, and others who have worked on it. My question is about forthcoming legislation, particularly the proposed credit union Bill. I recently met a delegation from the mid-Louth group of credit unions. They are concerned that the Government may be treating credit unions like banks, when there is a totally different ethos in...

Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: Yesterday Clare County Council confirmed it is demanding that a student's parents pay the household charge before a student's grant application will be processed. Other councils have said they are preparing to follow suit. Yesterday the Taoiseach seemed to be supporting this action and the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, described it as reasonable. Ba mhaith liom...

Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: I am very disappointed with the Taoiseach's answer. He should have taken the opportunity to clarify the issue. He knows better than I, because he is around longer, that the county councils do not provide the funding for higher education grants. In no way should the child of a household be penalised for what the household may or may not be doing. I had a very quiet word with the Minister...

Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: -----is to support these actions which clearly discriminate against lower and middle income students who need grants to get them into further education. All of this is as a result of the mess the Government and the Minister the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, have made of this household charge. Will the Taoiseach revise his answer and tell us that he will uphold...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Numbers (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prisoners held in the State on the 13 September for each of the past five years; the recommended capacity broken down by prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39340/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Mergers (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to merge the Forensic Science Laboratory of the Department of Justice and Equality into the State Laboratory and its transfer to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39387/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Mergers (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there will be significant cost savings as a result of the proposed merger of the Forensic Science Laboratory of the Department of Justice and Equality into the State Laboratory and its transfer to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39389/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Mergers (19 Sep 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the provision of a high quality, independent and seamless scientific service in the administration of justice will be lost by separating the Forensic Science Laboratory from the rest of the criminal justice system and merging it into another organisation with disparate objectives, many of them unrelated to the...