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Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Gerry Adams: The daily drip feed of revelations about the cervical cancer smear scandal and the reports into the deaths of babies in Portiuncula and Portlaoise hospitals have undermined confidence in the healthcare service and added to the trauma of the families affected. Without the remarkable courage of Vicky Phelan, the cervical smear scandal might never have become public. Her rejection of a demand...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Gerry Adams: This referendum to repeal the eighth amendment is fundamentally about trust. First and foremost it is about the willingness of our society to trust women and to accept that women are equal citizens with a right to health and to make health decisions for themselves. It is also about trusting our medical professionals faced with difficult situations and decisions, and it is about trusting the...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...seo atá roimh an Dáil um thráthnóna. I am also grateful to the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. I commend its members, including, in particular, its Chairman, Senator Catherine Noone, and the three Sinn Féin representatives, Deputies Louise O'Reilly and Jonathan O'Brien and Senator Paul Gavan. I also thank the Citizens' Assembly and...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2018)

Gerry Adams: I welcome the Government's apology to Joanne Hayes. The re-emergence of this tragic case is bound to be traumatic for her and her family and the mother of baby John. I express our solidarity with them. I raise with the Tánaiste the Government's abject failure to provide essential services for children with disabilities who are in the care of the State or who are in the community at...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach will be aware that this morning, daft.iepublished its latest rent price report and the details are alarming. Average rents have soared to a new record high. Rents across the State increased by 13% in the past 12 months. Supply remains at an all-time low. There are only 3,084 properties available to rent across the entire Twenty-six Counties. The introduction of rent...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (29 Mar 2017)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Minister of State for being present. It is no exaggeration to say that people with disabilities and their families in my constituency of Louth-East Meath and across this State are being treated deplorably. I have met dozens of families with citizens with intellectual disabilities and they all tell a similar tale of the never-ending fight to access services from this State....

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...in her endeavours. Last Friday, the commission of investigation confirmed the worst fears of many of us here when it announced that a significant quantity of human remains had been discovered at the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam. The remains are those of almost 800 children and babies who were buried in a septic tank with no explanation so far for the cause of their...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: I spoke this morning with Daniel Long who is the father of Orlaith, a little six-week old baby girl who was forced to wait 11 hours in the accident and emergency department of Cork University Hospital for a bed. Orlaith, with her father and mother, Debbie Looney, was referred to hospital as she was unable to hold her bottle down. She kept getting sick and she showed signs of dehydration....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...not act on the recommendation of the sixth report of the Convention on the Constitution, although the Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, told the Dáil that this recommendation was accepted and that a referendum would be held to remove the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution. The law defines blasphemy as publishing or saying something that is grossly abusive...

Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)

Gerry Adams: It is not agreed. We were given an Order of Business earlier today and the Taoiseach read out a revised Order of Business, which we received only a moment ago. This is regarding a very important issue, the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes and certain related matters. We have consistently raised these issues with the Taoiseach. Na Teachtaí Ó Caoláin,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...meet representatives of the Islamic faith in the time ahead; he has committed to so doing. I met Muslims from the new mosque at Galway a month or two ago. They are people who have come to Ireland; this is their home and they want to play a role as citizens. They actually add to who we are as a people. Some of them are native Irish people, as well as those who have come from other parts...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Jan 2015)

Gerry Adams: 161. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters will include investigation into citizens of the Twenty-six Counties who were forcibly relocated to the north of Ireland during the time period examined. [1947/15]

Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)

Gerry Adams: I refer to the terms of reference of the commission of investigation into the mother and baby homes. I understand from our spokesperson that the Minister for Justice and Equality is bringing them to completion, but she said in June that it was expected that they would be before the House prior to the summer recess. That did not happen. We need an opportunity to debate these serious issues....

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...xe1;il leis na Teachtaí Dála a fuair Aireacht sóisearach inniu. Go n-éirí an t-ádh leo uilig. Feicfimid an tslí ina mbeidh siad ag dul ar aghaidh ó seo amach. The State's policies towards women and children are being scrutinised by the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva. Committee members have been made aware of the results of a toxic political...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...Féin has made a detailed submission regarding the terms of reference of the commission of investigation. As I said earlier, I think there needs to be an investigation into the treatment of women and babies since the foundation of the State. I accept that the State is unlikely to do this. Anything that happened when the British were here is another matter. We are talking here about...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach. I know that he has a very full schedule and that the churches are in the front line, doing very good work for charities and working with citizens who are disadvantaged by austerity policies and so on. This year, we have seen the scandal of the mother and baby homes. New facts and the tragic stories of abuse and loss have emerged and continue to emerge. I read over...

Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: Tá ceist agam faoi chlár an Rialtais agus ceist eile agam faoi na mother and baby homes. The programme for Government in the context of public sector reform commits to transparency and accountability. It states that where secrecy and unaccountability, waste and extravagance, are identified the Government will pin down accountability for results at all levels of the public service...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...labhairt os comhair na ndaoine thuas in Áiléar na gCuairteoirí. Bhí cruinniú mór daoine lasmuigh agus iad ag abair amhrán agus ag tabhairt saghas solidarity dár gcáirde. Sinn Féin welcomes the Government's decision to establish a commission of investigation and its commitment to engage with the Opposition. We will hold the Government to...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...xe1;in a bhunú. Is cúis áiféala é gur tharla na rudaí seo sa chéad áit, ach is maith an rud é go bhfuil an cinneadh seo tógtha. I, too, welcome that the Government is to establish a commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes across this State. In the past week or so there have been horrific revelations in this regard, including...

Order of Business (4 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...ógartha. When will the Children First Bill 2014, which seeks to provide key child protection measures, return to the Dáil for Report Stage? As the Minister will be aware, it has emerged that the remains of 800 babies were found in convent grounds in Tuam. Will the Government establish, as a matter of urgency, a full public inquiry into this matter and the treatment of women...