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Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 619: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 599 of 13 March 2012, if he will take steps to lift the embargo on the dieticians posts that were advertised, offered and accepted but are now frozen due to the recruitment embargo to ensure that the six children directly affected are given access to the medical treatment they require [16738/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 620: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 599 of 13 March 2012, the treatment currently being received by the six children who could avail of insulin pumps were it not for the recruitment embargo [16739/12]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 677: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Roads Association have awarded a road maintenance contract from Dundalk to the border to a private contractor (details supplied); if this was the result of a competitive tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16686/12]

Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Cuirim fáilte roimh an ráiteas seo. Is maith an rud é go bhfuil dáta an reifrinn ar eolas againn faoi dheireadh. I appreciate that this must have been a very difficult decision for the Government to make, given the lengths to which it went to try to avoid a referendum. At least the people will now have their say. Sinn Féin believes that this is a bad treaty for Ireland and for the...

Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: The treaty will mean more cuts to our schools, hospitals and community services. It will mean more charges and tax hikes. Significant new powers will be given to the European Commission and the European Court of Justice. The treaty will undermine the Oireachtas by giving unelected bureaucrats and judges in Brussels and Luxembourg significant control over economic and fiscal policy. That...

Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Austerity policies will not end this economic crisis. We will mount a vigorous and wide campaign to ask the citizens of this State to vote "No".

Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Deputies should remember that on this issue, Sinn Féin has been right on every single count and the rest of the parties have been totally and absolutely wrong.

Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: If they doubt that, I appeal to them to ask the young people who are rushing to leave these shores, the half a million people who are unemployed and the other victims of austerity policies.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Tánaiste said that one is liable to the household charge, it is due and must be paid. Many Labour Party and Fine Gael Party members have acknowledged that the charge is unjust. It is another aggressive tax from the Labour Party and Fine Gael. It punishes citizens for the failure of government and the greed of bankers, developers and corrupt politicians. It targets especially those...

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: -----or crooked politician has faced due process? Is the Labour Party so bereft of ideas that it cannot conceive a reasonable alternative to the household charge? Let me give the Government one suggestion.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: It should abandon the household charge and introduce a cap on wages in the public sector at €100,000. That would raise €265 million, €100 million more than it is envisaged will accrue from the household charge.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: I see the Tánaiste totally avoided the question.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Government is going to pay the promissory note, although it might take longer, because it has not got the wherewithal to stand against it.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Tánaiste knows all about currency, including the printing of currency.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: In terms of the Tánaiste's new found interest in the North - he knows he is not comparing like with like - it is a great boost to citizens there. He would be better off dealing with issues about which he might know something such as breaches of Government policy by the Government. The Tánaiste may have noticed-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: According to the outgoing head of resources in the HSE, up to 500 hospital consultants are earning substantially more than the €200,000 pay ceiling the Government imposed last year on public service salaries.

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: Some senior doctors take home as much as €400,000 of taxpayers' money. What will the Taoiseach, I mean the Tánaiste - I know he wanted to be Taoiseach but the people had a different view. Will he apply Government policy?

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: By applying Government policy in this area, it will save over €50 million a year. Will the Government pursue these consultants with the same------

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: -----aggression as it will those who cannot afford the €100 household charge?

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Gerry Adams: One will do.