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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 302. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that are living in the four units at St. John of Gods, Drumcar, which have been recommended for closure by HIQA; the outcome for these persons in the event that these units are closed; the measures that need to be taken to prevent closure of these units; the steps that will be taken to ensure these units are up to the required...

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom an Bille os ár gcomhair um thráthnóna a mholadh. Tá buíochas ag dul do Theachta David Cullinane as ucht é a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. Iarraim tacaíocht ó achan Teachta don Bhille os ár gcómhair, go háirithe Teachtaí Fhianna Fáil agus Fine Gael. This is an important Bill and I hope Teachtaí will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: They voted against it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I do not buy into this spin about new politics. What is there is an arrangement which suits Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. I commend the work the Ceann Comhairle has done in terms of bringing in necessary reforms of how we do our business. However, the biggest difficulty is getting answers from Ministers, either in the exchanges in the Chamber or as one goes about trying to make...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I do all that but the culture is against giving people information.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on commitments contained in the programme for Government in respect of political reform. [8552/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the commission of investigation into IBRC. [8367/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach will recall that the commission of investigation into IBRC, like the one into Project Eagle, was one the Government avoided for a very long time before conceding the need for it. It is welcome that the Taoiseach is indicating that he is confident the commission will complete its work on the first module within the timeframe agreed, by the end of the year. We were also told the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I am not clear from the Taoiseach's initial answer as to whether there is a protocol for the use of private accounts for official business. One presumes official accounts would have more security built in and it would make sense, I presume, for Ministers not to use private accounts for official business. The Taoiseach mentioned what has happened internationally with the amount of hacking...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Is it the case that personal accounts will not be used for official business? If that is not the case, does the Taoiseach believe it should be the case?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has changed the protocols in respect of the use of private e-mail accounts within his Department. [8551/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Will the Taoiseach tell the Dáil what the Government has done to implement the Weston Park Agreement of 2001 between the British and Irish Governments? The Ceann Comhairle will know that this commits both Governments to hold inquiries if a judge appointed to examine four cases recommended so. Judge Cory recommended that four inquiries should be held, and three have taken place, but the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Citizens have rights and that should have primacy in a real Republic and those rights should include the right to public services. The Government's record on public services is disgraceful. As the Taoiseach contemplates his own political future, he should be aware, 100 years after the 1916 Rising, that citizens do not have rights to public services - not to a home, not to water, not to a...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: The Minister should lead by example. There is no point in asking others to sit down when he refuses to do so. This morning the NTA refused point blank to carry out a review of loss-making routes. All of this comes after a decade of under-investment in Bus Éireann. That, again, dates back to Fianna Fáil's time. The central point is about the rights of citizens.

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I have been raising the difficulties in Bus Éireann with the Taoiseach for a very long time and he has done nothing about them. The management of Bus Éireann announced measures that threaten the rights of bus workers and, most importantly, those of passengers, particularly people who live in rural Ireland. By slashing overtime and Sunday rates and cutting pay, the management is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Poland, his meeting with Prime Minister Beata Szydło and any other engagements he had while there. [8365/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I wish to raise three matters. The Taoiseach quite correctly stresses the importance of the peace process when he is discussing the implications of Brexit with our European partners. In the context of the peace process, the High Court in Belfast dismissed the appeal of Geraldine Finucane earlier today. That was done on the basis that Ministers are entitled to depart from the policies of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing last met and when it is scheduled to meet again. [8366/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: The January homeless figures, published by the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government yesterday, reveal an increase in the number of people in emergency accommodation. There is an all-time high of 7,167 citizens who are homeless and the number of households in emergency accommodation has increased by 84. In January, 4,760 adults were in emergency accommodation,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Arts, Irish and the Gaeltacht last met. [5893/17]