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Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Last October the Taoiseach launched the Government's policy, polasaí don oideachas Gaeltachta. This claims to be focused on the provision of Irish medium education and to support the use of Irish as a living, indigenous language in Gaeltacht areas. Under this new strategy, schools will only be given Gaeltacht school recognition if they teach entirely through the medium of Irish. In...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: The Fianna Fáil leader is right that any new Taoiseach will have to be approved by the House. However, given that Fianna Fáil has already pledged support, it will just be a rubber-stamping exercise. I wish to raise the issue of the treatment of cystic fibrosis and the controversy surrounding Orkambi and whether the HSE will agree to make it available to hundreds of patients....

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach praised Martin McGuinness a few days ago and I took that in good faith. Martin McGuinness stepped out of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister because he could not abide by allegations of corruption. He did the right thing and the Taoiseach, of all people, should appreciate that. Incidentally, I send best wishes to all the Fine Gael, Labour Party and...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I asked the Taoiseach if he would ask the Minister, Deputy Ross, to engage with the key stakeholders in the Bus Éireann dispute, but he failed to answer my question. Our public transport network is in a perpetual state of chaos. The Luas and Dublin Bus workers were on strike last year, there has been a troubling review by the NTA and there are the ongoing difficulties with Bus...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: It also protects the environment. It is not necessarily about making profit but about a public service. That is why it is called "public transport". Will the Taoiseach ensure that the Minister, Deputy Ross, engages with all of the stakeholders to bring this dispute to an end and to build, develop and sustain a proper public bus service?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: In October 2015, as the Taoiseach exhorted the people to keep the recovery going, he warned:we are facing a fork in the road. One track points to continued stability and certainty ... along the other track lies instability and chaos. Unfortunately, for the citizens of this State and the island, the Taoiseach stayed on the wrong track. Good Government should be about ending the chaos in...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Brexit Issues (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 81. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the documentation regarding the agreement he referred to with the British Government that there will be no return to the Border of the past. [8714/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 171. To ask the Minister for Finance if officials from the Revenue Commissioners have been engaged in examination and identification of locations for full Border checkpoints with red and green channel facilities in counties Louth, Monaghan, Cavan, Leitrim and Donegal and on the M1 motorway between Dublin and Belfast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8710/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the documentation regarding the agreement he referred to with the British Government that there will be no return to the Border of the past; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8711/17]

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: The hecklers say the Minister of State has hit a nerve, but he has not. What he has said is untrue. He is accusing me of involvement in the killing of gardaí. He should withdraw those-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, but I will be finished in one second. The Minister of States talks about moral high horses, but this is about a smear campaign against a decent man doing his job.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: The Minister of State is engaging in exactly the same tactics-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I ask the Deputy to withdraw the remarks he made in relation to Teachta Pearse Doherty. Apart from anything else, what age is Deputy Doherty?

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Do not be sure of anything.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I speak this evening in absolute opposition to the Taoiseach's motion of confidence in himself and his Government. He leads a Government that is without purpose and devoid of direction, stumbling from one crisis to the next. They have lost any authority to govern and that authority of course derives from their guardians in Fianna Fáil. The Fianna Fáil position is that it wants to...

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: And extra time, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Last year they gave it a new name, "new politics", in the centenary year of 1916. However, this new politics represents the type of politics that is prepared to accept an alleged criminal conspiracy by senior gardaí to destroy the character of a decent man doing his duty, and expects the Government that allowed this to happen to remain in office. In their world, political power is not...

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Fianna Fáil will, of course, continue to peddle the line that it is not in the interests of citizens to have an election. What that really means is that it is not in Fianna Fáil's interests. It suits it to have a weak Government in power that it put there in the first instance. Now it complains that Sinn Féin would not talk to it in the aftermath of the general election. It...