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Order of Business (22 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: This is one of a series of guillotine motions on legislation with which we deal day in, day out during this session. In the last session of the Dáil we did not have enough legislation to keep the House going. It is a measure of the disorganised fashion in which the Government brings legislation before the House. The reason we have Standing Orders for the passing of legislation is to...

Order of Business (22 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: So the Tánaiste did know.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I wish to share time with Deputy Broughan.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I am very happy to be here speaking on this issue, but my interest lies only in sections 3, 14 and 15. The balance will be very ably dealt with by my colleague, Deputy Broughan, the Labour Party's spokesperson on this area. The debate on the issue of broadcasting to the Irish abroad started with the Labour Party's Private Members' motion on 27 and 28 January 2004 which sought the...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I am sure it will be rough the next time.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I look forward to the final being available to our brothers and sisters abroad. I will hand over to my colleague, who will address other matters in the Bill.

Written Answers — Recidivism Rate: Recidivism Rate (22 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the findings of recent research undertaken by the UCD Institute of Criminology which found that more than a quarter of the State's prisoners were back in jail within a year of their release; his views on this rate of recidivism; the steps he will take to deal with same; and...

Written Answers — Property Management Companies: Property Management Companies (22 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 46: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in regard to his comments to a Law Reform Commission conference on 25 January 2007, he will outline his proposals for a high level group to consider how best to regulate the operation of property management companies; if the membership of the group has been finalised; if the terms of reference for the...

Housing Grants. (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 86: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce a grant to people whose homes have been identified with high radon gas concentrations and who are living alone on a weekly State pension of €209.30, to assist them with the cost of retrofitting their home against radon gas. [7620/07]

Housing Grants. (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I welcome the last part of the answer; the rest I knew fairly well already, having asked the question perhaps 15 times in the course of the Government's life. I am a very strong believer in pursuing matters to the point where the responsible person is caught. I thank the Minister for his helpful inclusion of radon remediation under the grant scheme. Perhaps we might go a little further....

Housing Grants. (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I hope the Minister of State does not take the good out of it.

Housing Grants. (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: It is important that we do not allow a red herring to be drawn across the trail. The Minister of State will be aware of many international studies on radon gas and smoking. Even where there is an overlap, the evidence is very clear that radon gas is a lethal killer, causing lung cancer; in Ireland, it is estimated to cause 200 deaths per year. It is quite extraordinary that we do not pay...

Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: No.

Written Answers — Radon Gas Awareness: Radon Gas Awareness (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 130: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money spent in 2006 in highlighting public awareness of radon and on improving information to householders and employers in order to enable and encourage them to address monitoring or remedial requirements effectively and economically. [7342/07]

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: That is gone now.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: The Taoiseach has back up from the PDs anyway.

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (28 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I seek leave under Standing Order 31 to have Dáil business suspended to discuss a matter of local and national importance, namely, the fact that serious crime in the Carlow-Kildare division rose by 12% in 2006 compared to a 1.4% increase nationally and has risen by 74% since 2000; the continuing undermanning of the Garda force in the Carlow-Kildare division where we have one garda for every...

Statute Law Revision Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Unlike my Fine Gael colleague I did not sit up all night burning the midnight oil on this issue. However, I wish to acknowledge the assistance given to me in this matter by the Labour Party legal adviser, Mr. Finbar O'Malley, in researching the area and in helping me to construct a sensible speech on the matter. This Bill is undoubtedly welcome. It breaks the back of a task that has been...

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (28 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the projects and schemes to be administered by his Department under the National Development Plan 2007 to 2013; the way these schemes will be funded outside of money already pledged in the Budget and Estimates processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7692/07]

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Emmet Stagg: As amended.