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Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Tá difear mór idir nótaí agus nótaí dona.

Regulatory Impact Assessments (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I have one question about consumer regulators. The National Consumer Agency was established in 2007 to protect and promote consumers' rights. In 2008, it was announced that it would be amalgamated with the Competition Authority which, it appears to me, is a totally different body responsible for enforcing Irish and European competition law. The National Consumer Agency has a good record of...

Regulatory Impact Assessments (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Okay. Go raibh maith agat.

Economic Management Council (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Did the Taoiseach deal with the issue of tracker mortgages with the banks? The European Central Bank cut rates earlier this month but most of the 250,000 variable rate mortgage holders are not expected to benefit from that. AIB, EBS, National Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, KBC Bank and Irish Nationwide are still considering whether to pass on the latest cut. Did the Taoiseach take the...

Economic Management Council (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I appreciate that the main focus of the Taoiseach's meeting concerned the Government's Personal Insolvency Bill. Sinn Féin has welcomed the publication of that legislation but we are disappointed that the banks are being allowed to have a veto. Would the Government consider an independent agency, as we have sought, which is empowered to enforce legally binding settlements on debtors and...

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I have two questions for the Taoiseach, both of which relate to legislation on health matters. This is no coincidence given that the health service is in such a mess. I very much welcome the news that the HSE governance Bill is about to be published. Every Member could tell a story of constituents coming into their offices in extreme distress. I, too, met the group from north Tipperary to...

Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Minister for Health promised that the beds would be reopened. I note that the Minister has written to pharmacists and GPs in regard to the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill, presumably because that Bill has not completed all Stages in the Dáil and Seanad. When does the Taoiseach expect that it will complete its passage through the Houses and is that the reason the...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I raise the issue of symphysiotomy of which the Taoiseach is very aware. It is an 18th century surgical operation performed on women that unhinges the pelvis and splits the pubic joint and its ligaments with a surgical knife or a saw. Patients were rarely asked for their consent. They were never told of the nature of the surgery or its risks or offered the safer alternatives of Caesarian...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: To be clear, the woman who won the recent court case, and she is a constituent of mine, basically did so on a technicality. She was at pains to point out that this does not apply to the vast majority of the survivors of symphysiotomy. I have here the Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Act. I imagine introducing the legislation I request would get the support of every Deputy in this Chamber....

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I am not threatening the Taoiseach. For God's sake, Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: It was carried out into the 1980s.

Departmental Staff (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has re-employed any retired civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30544/12]

Departmental Staff (17 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I welcome the Taoiseach's statement and consider it to be progress that the figures for retired public servants who have been re-employed in State employment have been decreasing. However, a figure of 850 still constitutes 850 too many, given current unemployment rates. I note that it was revealed last week that rules aimed at curtailing the amounts retired public service staff could earn...

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (12 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the financial support will be available to allow the small and medium enterprises to access cloud computing. [33851/12]

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (12 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the support will be available for small and medium enterprises to develop a presence on the internet. [33852/12]

Written Answers — Undocumented Irish in the USA: Undocumented Irish in the USA (11 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts he has made in recent months to advance the cause of the undocumented Irish in the United States. [32289/12]

Order of Business (11 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: It is not agreed. I very much welcome the fact the Minister for Health will make a personal statement this evening but no time has been set aside to discuss this. Will the Taoiseach set time aside to do that, so we can scrutinise what has been said?

Order of Business (11 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach for giving me the time at which the Minister will make the statement but that is not what I asked him. I asked him if he would set time aside for us to discuss whatever he may say.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Is it possible-----

Order of Business (11 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Is it possible for the Taoiseach to consider for one second that people listening to this debate have intelligence and that when I ask him if he will set time aside for me, as a duly mandated Member of this Dáil, to discuss these issues, it has nothing to do with any other issue except my entitlement as the leader of this party, which is here with a mandate the same as the Taoiseach-----