Adams, Gerry

Leaders' Questions (Continued)

Ar dtús baire, cuirim fáilte ar ais roimh na Teachtaí go léir. Roimh tosú, b'fhéidir go nguífidh sibh lá breithe sona dár gcara, an Teachta Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, atá ag ceiliúradh breith lá tábhac...

The Taoiseach knows that working lower and middle-income families and communities out there just cannot bear another heavy budget. The Taoiseach has spoken about a tough budget. Does the Govern...

It is clear that the Government's previous budgets have failed the fairness test. The Government refuses point blank to equality proof its policies to identify the human costs of these policies ...

This budget is an opportunity to lessen that burden. Will the Taoiseach take the opportunity now to confirm that the vulnerable will be protected? Would he give a commitment that the Government...

The Taoiseach says he is waiting until all the information is available. We know that half a million people are unemployed and that there are thousands and thousands of families in mortgage distre...

I ask the Taoiseach to give a very clear commitment that he will lift the burden of austerity from the citizens of this State.

Order of Business

I was quite surprised to read about the various measures in the media and I do not consider them reforms of any substantive nature. I was surprised because of the commitment given not once by the ...

Order of Business (Continued)

Sinn Féin produced a comprehensive, detailed document on root and branch political reform. Perhaps when the Taoiseach eventually gets around to meeting us on political reform, that might be on the...

What about an all-Ireland strategy?

Tax Rebates

Asked the Minister for Finance: if a person (details supplied) in County Limerick is entitled to a tax refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Third Level Course Accreditation

Asked the Minister for Education and Skills: if he will intervene in the crisis facing the 21 students studying audiology in Athlone Institute of Technology whose course has been cancelled; the steps he has taken to date in relation this issu...

Asked the Minister for Education and Skills: his plans to revive to reistate the four year BSc. course in audiology which has been cancelled by Athlone Institute of Technology; and the implications for the training of audiololgists here.

Special Educational Needs Services Provision

Asked the Minister for Education and Skills: his plans to include Down syndrome in the list of low incidence complex disorders that will enable children with Down syndrome to receive special assistance in mainstream classrooms; and if he will...

Leader Programmes Applications

Asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government: if his Department has received an application for grant approval from Louth Leader Partnership in respect of an organisation (details supplied); the date on which the application was received; when...

Housing Adaptation Grants Funding

Asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government: if he has decided to cut funding to local authorities for the provision of housing adaption grants for persons with disabilities or other special needs; if he will provide a breakdown of the fundin...

Data Protection

Asked the Minister for Justice and Equality: if his attention has been drawn to the detrimental impact the inclusion of civil registration records in a forthcoming EU Data protection directive will have on genealogical, historical, and biogra...

Property Ownership

Asked the Minister for Justice and Equality: if family members or members of the public are entitled to view deeds of transfer held by the Property Registration Authority of Ireland under rule 188(8) of the Land Registration Rules 1972 or any...

An Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann

Asked the Minister for Health: the reason An Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann is commonly referred to as the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland in the sector; the steps he is taking to ensure it is given its fu...

Mental Health Services Funding

Asked the Minister for Health: if he will provide a breakdown of the number of the 414 posts promised for mental health services in 2012 that were actually in place by the end of the 2012; the number that are now in place; wheth...

Asked the Minister for Health: the number of the 477 posts promised for the mental health services in 2013 that are currently in position; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Services for People with Disabilities

Asked the Minister for Health: if a decision has been taken to cut funding from a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 20; if clients of the service who turn 18 will be refused services at the hospital from December; if he will...

Asked the Minister for Health: if dyspraxia is considered a disability; the services and supports available to persons with dyspraxia; if clinics or counselling are available to ensure that those who have dyspraxia get the best ...

Courses Accreditation

Asked the Minister for Health: if he will intervene in the crisis facing the 21 students studying audiology in Athlone Institute of Technology whose course has been cancelled; the steps he or the Health Service Executive have ta...

Hospital Services

Asked the Minister for Health: if he will request the Health Service Executive to reinstate the acute and chronic pain management clinic in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and to have it included in their service plan for...

Symphysiotomy Report

Asked the Minister for Health: when the final Report by Professor Oonagh Walsh into the practice of symphysiotomy will be published.

Orthodontic Services Provision

Asked the Minister for Health: if he will provide an update on the figures for children currently awaiting an orthodontic treatment place with particular reference to counties Louth and Meath.

Asked the Minister for Health: the processes undertaken with regard to time frames from initial referrals and sunsequent assessments, guidelines used in determining clinical need, details of various categories of patients on tre...

Asked the Minister for Health: if he will provide a breakdown of the current staffing levels in respect of provision of orthodontic treatment for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

General Practitioner Services

Asked the Minister for Health: if there are any plans to remove the DOC service from the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth following recent cuts to the North East Doctor on Call Service, or will there be any reduction o...

Health Services Staff Data

Asked the Minister for Health: further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 10 July 2013, if any of the positions referred to in that reply have now been filled; if he will detail the current vacancies in the mental health servi...

Medical Card Applications

Asked the Minister for Health: the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth.

Search and Rescue Service

Asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport: further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 17 July 2013, if he has had any discussions or contacts with the RNLI in relation to the requirement for a D Class boat for the Clogherhead, County Lout...

Coast Guard Services

Asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport: further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 17 July 2013, the steps that have been taken to fill the two outstanding vacancies among radio officers within the Coast Guard Service; if candidates ha...

Asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport: if he will provide a breakdown of the number of radio officers employed in the rescue co-ordination stations at present and the number that were employed in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.