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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: 159. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has implemented changes to the reimbursement of versatis lidocaine 5% medicated plaster; the date on which these changes commenced; and the way in which this now affects persons that previously had access to this drug via GMS services [40028/17]

Topical Issue Debate: School Management (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Minister for his response. I do not envy him his job. This is a small school in a small community and he has a huge Department to manage, but a solution to what is now a crisis should have been found months ago. The Department had been aware of the problems in Faughart for some time and I had brought them directly to the Minister's attention, but the Department decided not to...

Topical Issue Debate: School Management (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle as an deis an t-ábhar tábhachtach seo a phlé anseo um thráthnóna. Táim buíoch as an Aire as a bheith i láthair. Tá muintir mo dháilcheantar buartha. Tá an chás millteanach agus tá eagla mór agus imní ar dhaoine i dtaobh an t-ábhar seo. Tá daoine ag lorg...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: I have a brief supplementary question. The Taoiseach knows well that Sinn Féin wants and is working to see the institutions in place in the North. He also knows the largest party in the Assembly, the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, has signed up to a confidence and supply agreement not unlike Fine Gael's relationship with Fianna Fáil. It will support legislation on Brexit. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet Committee on Brexit will be retained when Cabinet committees are re-established. [32321/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the all-island civic dialogue. [32896/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: It is very welcome that the all-island civic dialogue on Brexit will meet next Thursday. It has been a good initiative, both in the sectoral and plenary session gatherings. It has been useful in informing the Government and I hope citizens across the island have some sense that we need to come at this issue in an all-island manner. If I understand the Taoiseach's answer properly, it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: Will the Cabinet committee on social policy and public service reform examine the crisis faced by young people in receipt of jobseeker's benefit, who, as a result of Government policy, have had their income sliced from €193 to €102 a week? Focus Ireland and the National Youth Council of Ireland have been highlighting the consequences of this since 2009 and have called for these...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: I have two questions which the Taoiseach neglected to answer. Was the return of the bedsit discussed by the Cabinet subcommittee and will he explain the position of Fine Gael or the Government on the principle that I have expounded, that a citizen has a right to home?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: We are all now aware of the stats, as they are called. There are 90,000 homeless households, including 3,000 homeless children, while three homeless citizens died over the summer. It all comes down to an ideological question. Sinn Féin believes every citizen has the right to a home. we believe it should be a constitutional right, but the Taoiseach's Government does not share that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if all of the new Cabinet committees have met; and if Cabinet Committee D (Infrastructure) was one of these. [39623/17]

Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “that the Cathaoirleach of the Seanad may make a closing statement at the end of the meeting; and”:“(b) notwithstanding Standing Order 87(c), Members of the Westminster Parliament elected from constituencies in Northern Ireland and Members of the European Parliament elected from constituencies in Ireland, including...

Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom é a dhéanamh. First of all, the amendment simply allows for the-----

Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: -----MPs and MEPs to speak. Will I read it, Ceann Comhairle?

Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: If I may-----

Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: An bhfuil cead agam caint, a Cheann Comhairle? Tá daoine eile ag caint.

Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: I have a letter from the Ceann Comhairle's office, from the private secretary to the Ceann Comhairle, to our bainisteoir here, and this was an interpretation. I do not argue with the Ceann Comhairle's interpretation. It is that unless the House otherwise decides, neither MEPs nor members of the Westminster Parliament elected from constituencies in Northern Ireland can attend and participate...

Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: The first I heard of it was today when the Ceann Comhairle said that.

Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: To be very clear for the record, we only learned that these folks would be denied their speaking rights just before 15 September. We immediately raised that with both the whip's office and with the office of the Ceann Comhairle, in some detail, as he is aware. When the Fianna Fáil leader became aware, he did not make any representations on this. We did this properly and by the book....

Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: None of us knew these MPs and MEPs would be barred until we received notice a few days ago. We did not know.