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Order of Business (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin agrees with Deputy Joe Higgins. We also object to the use of the guillotine.

EU Summits (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken directly to the French President Nicolas Sarkozy since he came to office; and whether they have discussed the issue of the EU/IMF Bailout. [16162/11]

EU Summits (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he intends to engage directly with French President in the weeks or months ahead. [16278/11]

EU Summits (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the forthcoming meeting of the European Council. [16605/11]

EU Summits (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will raise the issue of the Government's request for a rate cut on the interest of the EU/IMF bailout at the forthcoming European Council meeting. [16606/11]

EU Summits (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: I will address these questions in a thematic way. There are two issues, the first of which is the way the Taoiseach responds to questions. I asked direct questions - Nos. 4 and 5 - about the Taoiseach's priorities and whether he would raise the issue of the cut in the bailout's interest rate at the forthcoming Council meeting, but he did not answer either. There is a difficulty with how we...

EU Summits (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: I do not understand the strategy. The Taoiseach has heard me say so previously and I have tried to appreciate what the strategy does, but I can predict what he will say at the Council meeting. He always starts off his remarks by committing the Government entirely to the bailout. Why on Earth would the Council take him seriously when he is telling it that the Government is committed to...

Constitutional Amendments (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin supports political reform and I have listened over the years to what the Taoiseach has said on this issue. I have said on the record that I agree with a great deal of what he says, including that reform should be citizen-centred, accountable and transparent and it should be based on equality and fairness. It is important to step back every so often to figure out how these...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: I share the Taoiseach's concern about the situation in east Belfast. I was in touch overnight with people from Belfast. We need to appeal to everyone to be calm and to show leadership but also we need from this Dáil acts of practical solidarity with those communities. I encourage Teachtaí Dála from every party to go quietly to Belfast and to make an arrangement to visit some of these...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: -----and yesterday, the Sinn Féin spokesperson on health, Deputy Ó Caoláin, revealed the existence of a plan to end HSE ambulance transport services for hundreds of dialysis and cancer patients in the west, all the way from the tip of County Donegal down to Limerick. I have a letter which sets out this plan very clearly. I note that the Taoiseach's own ceantar i gContae Mhaigh Eo is the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: There are two issues, the substantive issues which we raise and the way in which they are dealt with by the Government and the Taoiseach. I am not scaremongering. I am not here to raise any fears in people. I am referring to a letter which says-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: Ceann Comhairle-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: The letter states, "I wish to inform you all that the ambulance service transport budget for 2011 has now been expended. This includes expenditure on dialysis and cancer care services." I will not read all the letter-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: The letter continues, "The final bookings will be made for patients-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: -----up to and including 30 June 2011". Sin é. Is é sin an fhírinne. There is no scaremongering. These are cancer patients and dialysis patients, including some from the Taoiseach's county. They have been told there will be no ambulance services to bring them to and from hospital for treatment. On the issue-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: This is not a supplementary question, with respect; it is the same question being put twice.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: I asked the Taoiseach to make a statement in which he makes it clear that he will end this crisis-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: On a point of order-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: I have to be allowed a point of order. The Taoiseach made the same commitment-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2011)

Gerry Adams: It is a point of order. He made a commitment that the Minister would make a statement. He did not make a statement.