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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Records (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Gabhaim buíochas leis on Taoiseach as ucht an freagra a thabhairt. My question is on Government files. I recently wrote to the Taoiseach following revelations that the British army and RUC special branch used waterboarding in the North during the 1970s. This was uncovered when the Pat Finucane Centre revealed that Government papers from London had revealed the use of waterboarding as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action last met. [5743/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Every day we have new evidence of climate change and the detrimental effect it has on our environment and the rejection of all of this evidence by the new US Administration will clearly make the situation worse. The programme for Government refers to climate change being the global challenge of our generation. I appreciate that the Minister had an accident and I wish him well, but this goes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I will finish on this. The Government's plans for the implementation of pay-by-weight bin charges and the protections which will be in place for low-income households was a significantly controversial issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of waste being dumped on the sides of our roads. Can the Taoiseach give us a sense of what additional measures the Government envisages for dealing with this problem?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: The sectoral engagements are a very important part of the all-island civic dialogue. Indeed, the Taoiseach used the phrase "all-island" half a dozen times in his response to an Teachta Howlin. However, as far as I know, none of the sectoral meetings has taken place in the North, which is very disappointing. The Taoiseach indicated a meeting would be held in Newry, which I communicated to a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: We will blame the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach will have to do the same.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the all-island civic dialogue since its first plenary meeting on 2 November 2016. [4581/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on Brexit is due to be held. [5892/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: It is a programme for Government commitment and it would be better if the Taoiseach answered the question, even in his own quaint way.

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: I just want to make sure the leader of Fianna Fáil has finished. An bhfuil sé críochnaithe?

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Maith an fear. The programme for Government commits the Government to creating regional jobs plans. In this context, the news that 500 jobs are to be lost at the HP Inc. facility in Leixlip is devastating for the local community and for the workers and their families. When did the Government know that this move was to be taken by the company? What action, if any, did the Government take...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: When is the meeting?

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: We were told weeks ago that the Minister for Health was meeting the Minister of State at the Department of Defence. It still has not happened. I asked the Taoiseach a clear question. Did the Minister for Health raise this issue directly with the Taoiseach? These children are waiting for transport now. If they got word that there was a transplant, they would not be able to be transported...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: Yesterday, I raised with the Taoiseach the scandal of tens of thousands of patients being omitted from official waiting list numbers published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, as revealed on the "RTE Investigates" programme on Monday evening. I will return on another day to my party's recommendation for dealing with this emergency. I wish today to raise another shocking case that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: It is also unproved.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: On the hustings.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: We all acknowledge that the biggest threat to the economy at this time is Brexit and its consequences. Will the Taoiseach tell us what consideration, detailed or otherwise, was given to the proposition that the North be accorded a special designated status within the European Union? It might be useful to understand the thought processes and procedures which the Government went through in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: There can be no soft Border. We said this from day one. There will be a hard economic Border, which is unfortunate. The only way to deal with that is to ensure the land frontier between the European Union and the British state is not on the island of Ireland. That is the way to avoid it. The impact on the Good Friday Agreement, Border communities, jobs and wages as well as on the economy...