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Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Ditto with the Government's proposals for next generation broadband services. Sinn Féin would not cut capital spending.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Our capital investment proposals would significantly contribute to Ireland's competitiveness, as well as developing a sustainable, performing economy. Investment in infrastructure not only benefits job creation in the immediate term, it also supplies side benefits for businesses and the State. For those who want to listen, we would fund these proposal from the remaining €5.3 billion in...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: There are repeat offenders, habitual serial shouters who have nothing of substance to say and there is no willingness to listen to what others might have to offer. It is little wonder George Lee left.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Sexism is alive and well in the Dáil, as was demonstrated clearly during Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's response to the Minister for Public Enterprise and Reforem, Deputy Brendan Howlin, on Monday. She was interrupted 65 times during her 30 minute speech. One Fine Gael misogynist interrupted 27 times. These are not my figures; they were given to me by a Government Deputy with whom I spoke...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Be sure that a motley crew of bad mannered amadáin, lobby fodder for the Government, will not silence us. We have a mandate to be in this Chamber and will make our voices heard clearly. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin beat me to it the other day when he told us that he had heard the North mentioned more often in the past nine months than he had at any other time in his 15 years in the...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Maybe that is too much to ask. At a time when Sinn Féin in the North is attempting, with the active assistance of the DUP, to wrest such powers from London, Labour and the Fine Gael are preparing to give away fiscal powers to the EU. The Taoiseach knows that the cuts in the North come from the Tory budget and it demeans anyone here to use a British Tory Government's cuts inflicted upon...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Pull something from a hat.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: After weeks of cynical Government leaks and scaremongering, the Government has produced a budget which is devoid of hope for working people, lower and middle income families, the elderly, children and the poor. It targets some of the most vulnerable in society for cuts and stealth taxes. Gheall an Rialtas buiséad bunaithe ar cothromas, postanna agus athchóiriú, ach ní dhearna sé sin. A...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Moreover, on 14 occasions Ministers and the Taoiseach have breached their own pay cap to award higher salaries to their special advisers. Just this week we saw the controversy in regard to a former Fine Gael director of communications and now special adviser to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton. The Taoiseach saw fit to intervene directly to seek this pay rise...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Could we have order please? Has the Leas-Cheann Comhairle spoken to the Taoiseach?

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Thank you.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: If the Taoiseach wants to table a debate on this in the Government's time, I would be very happy to facilitate it. At the moment I want to talk about the Government's budget but he does not want me to talk about that.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan's, budget announced yesterday was a stealth tax budget. Of the €1 billion he raised, the massive bulk of it came from stealth charges – the VAT increase, the household charge, carbon tax, motor tax and excise duties. It was an anti-jobs budget. It is a pro-landlord and pro-property speculators budget. The Government has protected property reliefs...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: The Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, confirmed on Monday that more nursing homes will be closed in 2012. This is dreadful news for elderly people and their families as we approach Christmas. The way in which the Government has approached this issue has been sleekit. The names of 80 nursing homes which may be closed was leaked to the media, including two in my constituency of Louth, St....

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: I wish to raise two issues. First, I welcome the Ceann Comhairle's remarks about behaviour in the Chamber.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Unfortunately, some Members are not listening to what the Ceann Comhairle is saying. In light of the Taoiseach's decision to send back the disability payment for review, is the budget equality-proofed in line with the Government's-----

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: Does the Government have any intention to equality-proof the budget?

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: I raised the other issue yesterday. The Taoiseach is to attend a European Council summit meeting this week. He refused to have discussions before he left and refused to distribute the Van Rompuy report to the Opposition even thought the Government has had it since yesterday. Where is the reform in this institution when we need to read about these reports in the newspapers and when other...

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: I am asking about political reform. Can the Taoiseach make it clear as he was invited to do earlier that he will veto? I note-----

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Gerry Adams: With respect, he can because he has information-----