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Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 238: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons employed in local authorities in County Louth in each of the years 2007 to 2010 and to date in 2011. [10194/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Reports: Health Service Reports (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the 27 recommendations made by a report into the circumstances pertaining to the death of a person (details supplied) and if he will account for all progress made into the implementation of each of these 27 recommendations. [10190/11]

Departmental Schemes (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to ensure that no worker displacement arises from the introduction of the new Tús scheme, the work placement programme and internships. [10450/11]

Departmental Schemes (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce a travel allowance for Tús participants. [10449/11]

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: I have been trying hard to understand the Taoiseach's negotiating strategy regarding-----

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Every circus needs its clowns.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: I would like the Taoiseach's help.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: This seems to be about reducing the interest rate on the bailout. While this is important, it will happen anyway, as other Sinn Féin Deputies and I have stated previously. I am trying to come to terms with the matter. As I look at the Greek Government's situation, the Taoiseach has not even had a discussion with his counterparts at a summit on Ireland's disastrous situation. In fact, he...

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Does the Taoiseach know that European Commission President Barroso, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the European Council President are to meet tomorrow, not to discuss the awful situation pressing down upon the Irish people-----

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: -----but to discuss the Greek situation? As the Taoiseach stated, Greece and Portugal are at the top of the EU's conversation. Why is Ireland not at the top? The Taoiseach should explain that to the House.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Obviously, the Taoiseach knows nothing about any of the questions I asked, as he did not answer any of them.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: I was not decrying the Greeks. I was praising them. Something that hurt me - I am sure it hurt every Irish citizen - was how some protestors at a demonstration in Greece had placards-----

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: -----that read, "We are not the Irish".

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Therein lies the core of it. A fellow countyman of the Taoiseach's, Mr. John Healy, wrote a book many eons ago, entitled No One Shouted Stop. He was referring to the scourge of emigration, but he could have been talking about this Government. We know what Fianna Fáil did, but it is not in government. Rather, the Taoiseach is in government. Some 500,000 people are unemployed.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: On the way to the House this morning, I saw mile-long lines of people queuing for the dole. The jobs stimulus does not appear to be a serious investment plan on the Government's radar. What I am saying is simple - the Taoiseach needs to say "Stop". He needs to catch the attention of the senior partners in the two-tiered EU and tell them that this debt, as the Minister for Finance stated,...

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: We should tell those at the upper echelons of the European Union that this is the case. We must get their attention and angry with them. The laughing hyenas behind them should be turned loose on those who have a responsibility-----

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: The Government has a responsibility to stand up for Irish interests, but it is not doing so.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach do this? Will he go and say, "Stop"?

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: Is ceist shimplí é.

Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)

Gerry Adams: The Government would give it all away. It would give it to the bankers.