Results 1,881-1,900 of 11,500 for speaker:Gerry Adams

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (24 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: 151. To ask the Minister for Finance if the disabled drivers and passengers scheme is only applicable to specially modified vehicles or if certain elements of the scheme, for example, VRT exemption, fuel grant and toll road exemption, may be applied for in circumstances in which the applicant holds a primary medical certificate but does not have a modified vehicle. [3154/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if a meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place on 12 December 2016. [40126/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (18 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has held any meetings with officials in the international, European Union and Northern division of his Department relating to Brexit since 1 December 2016. [1714/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (18 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: 77. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the functions of the parliamentary liaison unit in his Department; and the way in which these differ from the Office of the Government Chief Whip. [1911/17]

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin was okay when it was confined to the North. It is only when we began to win political support in this State that we started to get the type of hostility we now see. That is a grave mistake. It is also a fact that when the North is raised in this Dáil it is usually for the sole purpose of attacking Sinn Féin. I am not against Sinn Féin being attacked. People...

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: -----who sometimes behaves in a hysterical manner. He cited the transfer of justice and policing powers but he did not say anything about the role of his Government. Seamus Mallon of the SDLP told us we would not get the transfer of policing and justice powers. They said we could not get it but we persisted and we got the powers transferred from London to Belfast, with no thanks to the...

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: I remind the Taoiseach that over the past six years I have regularly appealed to him and the Government to take up its leadership responsibilities and challenge the British Government as an equal. I make the same appeal today. I also make that appeal to Teachta Micheál Martin. We also heard talk about the equality agenda. Teachta Micheál Martin said that under the terms of...

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: -----do their job and deal with our friends in Britain. It must also be remembered that the British Government imposed cuts to the Northern Ireland budget that have been felt right across public services. The imposition of Brexit is against the will of the people in the North. The people in the North voted to remain within the European Union. The notions that are being peddled that the...

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: That is them hammered now.

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: For example, Deputy Micheál Martin sat at the Cabinet table for 14 years. While I have no doubt there were good people at that table, the Fianna Fáil leader did nothing about the corruption and waste of public money that characterised that period. He did nothing about the brown envelope culture.

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin takes a different view.

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: We will not tolerate behaviour of this kind and we believe that all such allegations must be-----

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: We will not tolerate behaviour of this kind and all such allegations must be rigorously and independently investigated.

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: However, the refusal of Arlene Foster to step aside, without prejudice, until a preliminary report on the RHI allegations is published, and her refusal to set up such a process, blocked any possibility of a robust and comprehensive investigation. As a consequence of that and not the spurious half-truths that An Teachta Martin peddles, Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy First Minister last...

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: And Deputy McGrath, of course. He would be welcome.

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: The Tipperary team will be in west Belfast in a week or so. Come up with it.

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: As the Leas-Cheann Comhairle knows, there is no easier job than that of the hurler on the ditch. Let us go up, contest and ask the people of the Six Counties to vote for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael or any other party. The DUP will try to sectarianise these matters. Even though it would not be Deputies' intention, the DUP may be aided in this by some of the utterances from this Chamber....

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: Tá mé sásta go bhfuil an díospóireacht seo ag dul ar aghaidh inniu. Ba mhaith liom dea-mhéin a chur in iúl do Mr. Martin McGuinness. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle will know that since the good people of Louth and east Meath sent me into this Chamber, I have been asking for regular, structured debates on the North as part of the normal business of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff assigned to each division in his Department; and the number of staff assigned to each section and unit of each division. [1910/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Jan 2017)

Gerry Adams: In the same line, the crux of my question is about Brexit and whether the Taoiseach anticipates allocating additional staff to deal with the range of issues which arise as a consequence of the British decision to leave the EU. Will those staff have the range of skills and the experience needed? I have never considered a soft Brexit possible and the British Prime Minister signalled clearly...