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Employment Rights (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: My question was about the social partners and the Taoiseach's engagement with them. Have the Government's plans to amalgamate the five employment rights bodies been discussed with the social partners? Will the change improve the entitlements of workers? I think we will see more of this. I sat with Members of the Taoiseach's party as we heard from the Lagan Brick folks, who have been on...

Departmental Staff (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I did not hear the figure.

Departmental Staff (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Is that to do constituency work on the Taoiseach's behalf?

Departmental Staff (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Let me give the Taoiseach some figures, if I may, for him to cogitate on - these are from the Irish League of Credit Unions. Some 1.8 million citizens have less than €100 per month to live on, after bills are paid. Some 50% have had to borrow to pay household bills in the past, with 10% of them using moneylenders in the past 12 months. Some 17%, or over 600,000 citizens, have nothing...

Departmental Staff (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Can I just finish my point, a Cheann Comhairle?

Departmental Staff (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: We also have a situation in the Department of the Taoiseach where a ceiling for special advisers is set at €92,000, yet some of the Taoiseach's special advisers, including one who was in the news recently, earn almost twice that.

Departmental Staff (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I consciously did not name the persons involved, a Cheann Comhairle. If there are to be cuts - we are approaching a winter of cuts - they should start at the top. They should start in the Taoiseach's office with the man who is in charge of the Government and the staff he employs there. That is how we will get an end to the inequality that austerity is reinforcing, as well as a narrowing of...

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Shakespeare also said: "There is a tide in the affairs of men." One thing I have learned from being here is that when the Taoiseach decides not to answer a question, he does not answer it. I was going to ask him when we could expect legislation on the future of the Seanad and when a referendum would be likely to be held. There is a seanfhocal in the North that states "Whatever you say, say...

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Let me try another couple of questions. Sinn Féin's view is that the issue of the future of the Seanad should be part of the constitutional convention. If we are carrying out a thorough review of the Constitution, covering the electoral system, the political system, presidential terms and so on, it seems appropriate to put the Seanad into that also. Some of these other issues are also...

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: A reformed Seanad could find space for people such as the Traveller community, for people who are disenfranchised, for people from the diaspora and citizens living in the North. Will the electorate be presented with options on the future of the Seanad or will it simply be a choice between the status quo and abolition?

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: "Yes" or "No" to what?

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Or a Labour Deputy.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I have a very short question.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I will be very brief.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach made a very pertinent point. He said that if the constitutional convention wishes to raise other issues, it could do so. What would happen if the constitutional convention wishes to raise the future of the Seanad?

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: One referendum does not make a summer.

Proposed Legislation (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the steps he has taken to bring forward legislation on Cabinet confidentiality. [30541/12]

Proposed Legislation (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: Yes, it is.

Proposed Legislation (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: The programme for Government is very clear and the Taoiseach cited it all this session and the Government's will on these issues. It contains a commitment to bring forward legislation on the issue of Cabinet confidentiality. It also says that the Government has become too centralised and unaccountable. There is lots of evidence of that, particularly around the Economic Management Council...

Proposed Legislation (10 Jul 2012)

Gerry Adams: I cannot hear the Chair.