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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Deputy refused to put it to the British Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meeting of the Cabinet committee on Brexit that was held on 24 November 2016. [38637/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach will be aware that throughout her campaign to become Tory party leader and since she was appointed as Prime Minister, Theresa May has repeated that "Brexit means Brexit". Not content with that, she coined a new phrase last week when she referred to a "red, white and blue Brexit". That is her new mantra. The British Government has made it clear where it stands. It is standing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers Appointments (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: I have an offer to make. If the Taoiseach were prepared to change his policy, we could lend him Deputy Pearse Doherty or some of our economic advisers, who would advise him properly, point him in a different direction and really bring in new politics.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cyber Security Policy (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the protocols his Department has in place for the use of unofficial e-mail accounts for official purposes by him and Ministers of State in his Department. [39814/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cyber Security Policy (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: As the Taoiseach knows, the issue of hacking has hit the news recently as a result of allegations that the Russian Government has in some way hacked into the American Democratic Party computer system. The outgoing President has initiated an investigation into this. We read that more recently, in the past few months, there was a theft of millions from Tesco Bank in Britain, so there are a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers Appointments (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: If I understand the Taoiseach's answer, he has not yet filled the position of social economic adviser. Am I right?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers Appointments (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has previously said that this is a crucial position. We are still in economic difficulties and many citizens across every sector are under huge economic pressure. There is a housing and homelessness emergency and pressure in the public services, especially the health services. Brexit will not ease those economic difficulties but will increase them and the entire construct of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers Appointments (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has appointed a new chief economic adviser. [39815/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Constitutional Convention recommended that the right to vote in presidential elections should be extended to citizens of the North and to members of the diaspora, the people who were forced out of this country by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: This morning, councillors from four of the largest councils in the North, that is, councillors from Mid Ulster District Council, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Newry, Mourne and Down District Council and Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, all of which support this position, took part in a protest outside the Dáil at the Government's deliberate long-fingering of this issue....

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach says this has been a difficult situation for the Minister; God help him facing this situation. We have heard it all before - Enda-speak, platitudes and plamás. The Taoiseach says it is quite complex. The bottom line is the Government has refused to act on rent certainty once again. The Government and the other team across the floor have created the biggest housing...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: Today the Taoiseach's Government launched its long-overdue and long-promised propositions for the residential rental sector. Despite the Government's reluctance to support rent certainty in the past, Sinn Féin had hoped rent certainty would be part of the Government's plan. We had hoped some relief would be given to the more than 700,000 citizens struggling with increased rents. The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any changes to the public opening hours or services provided in the Revenue Commissioners' offices, Millennium Centre, Dundalk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40007/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: 329. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is a requirement of the JobPath scheme that participants must attend JobPath offices in order to do job searches; if this is the case for participants with small children who must pay for child care while they attend JobPath meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39986/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Properties (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: 330. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, commencing on 11 December 2016, a security company will be responsible for opening and closing Government buildings in the Millennium Centre, Dundalk, which currently accommodates a number of State offices (details supplied); if this function was to date performed by public servants at the service officer level; if this change contravenes the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children and Family Services Provision (13 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: 665. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the additional supports for families in emergency accommodation and in particular the additional access to early years services, school completion programmes and free public transport that has been provided to families; and the costs of these additional supports. [35450/16]

Personal Explanation by Member (7 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Ceann Comhairle as ucht an deis seo a thabhairt dom an ráiteas seo a dhéanamh. Let me begin once again by saying that the shooting of Brian Stack was wrong. It was a grievous loss for his family and should never have happened. In the absence of the two Governments agreeing to a process to deal with the past, I sought to try to assist the family of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: I welcome the Taoiseach's rapprochementwith the Catholic Church, or at least the hierarchy, and his meeting with Pope Francis. While he does not have any control over the Pope's schedule, will the Taoiseach comment on whether the Pope will visit the North as part of his schedule in 2018? One of the slogans from sectarian elements in the North with which I was reared was "No Pope here"....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Pope Francis on 28 November 2016. [37721/16]