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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Oct 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he will extend the age allowance to qualified adults over 80 years of age. [26289/07]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (31 Oct 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 524: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in granting a stamp four to a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [26472/07]

Written Answers — Garda Divisions: Garda Divisions (6 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 438: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the position whereby towns in north Kildare are in different Garda divisions, with Leixlip being in DMA west, Maynooth in the Carlow/Kildare Division and Kilcock in the Louth/Meath Division; his views on transferring those towns into a Kildare Garda Division to streamline resources and...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (6 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 492: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 617 of 23 October 2007 and No. 559 of 16 October 2007 if he will answer that part of the question that referred to future provision of water for human consumption for County Kildare and whether plans are being prepared to provide such supply from the River Shannon; and...

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: And so they should.

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I ask Deputies to be quiet and allow me speak. I have been a Whip for a long time and as a result I have been involved in talks about Dáil reform and I am nearly afraid to say how long that has been. The most extensive work was done by Deputies Barrett, Brennan, former Deputy Des O'Malley and myself. We were very close to agreement on a major package of reforms but the election came and...

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I thought I would be promoted by now.

Order of Business. (8 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Will the Ceann Comhairle assist me by trying to find out which Minister or Minister of State is responsible for inland fisheries? Which Department has responsibility for this matter? I am finding it difficult to get this information. I know that salmon are covered by a certain Minister when they are at sea, but I think another Minister looks after them when they are in our inland waterways.

Written Answers — Civil Defence: Civil Defence (8 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Defence the progress that has been made in the matter of increasing the membership of Civil Defence by 2010. [27719/07]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Recruitment: Defence Forces Recruitment (8 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of foreign nationals that have been recruited into the Defence Forces in each of the past five years. [27720/07]

Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: A number of Deputies in the previous Dáil repeatedly raised the issue of unregulated management companies for housing estates. The Government promised a raft of legislation involving a number of Departments to deal with this. The companies are springing up like mushrooms in a field of horses and they are abusing residents and tenants because they are not regulated. High charges and no...

Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Is there any timescale?

Written Answers — Student Support Schemes: Student Support Schemes (13 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the average cost of rented accommodation for students in Dublin city centre is €600 per month and that the grant system forces many students to seek part-time work to support themselves, thus not giving adequate attention to their studies; if she will include a speedy, efficient,...

Written Answers — Access to Third Level Education: Access to Third Level Education (13 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to a recent report (details supplied) which suggested the replacement of the CAO points system with a lottery system coupled with an aptitude test; her views on whether the CAO points system is unfair and that the Government should consider adopting the model used in the Netherlands which has a...

Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Guillotines at this stage of the Dáil's life are unusual. They deny the House the opportunity to debate issues fully. There have been 691 guillotines in the history of the House, 307 of which were during the previous Government's lifetime. It is not a fact that guillotines are routine. Their use by this Administration is excessive, accounting for 44% of all guillotines since 1921. We...

Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: No.

Written Answers — Recycling Policy: Recycling Policy (14 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 51: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans for putting in place a national recycling infrastructure to process recyclable waste here as opposed to exporting it, in order to ensure accountability in respect of the action taken regarding that waste that cannot be ensured when that waste is exported to another country, and to reduce the...

Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I always understood that our primary purpose in this assembly, as legislators, is to make law but we now find ourselves in a situation where there is no legislation ready to debate in the House yet guillotines are imposed on the small items of legislation that come before the House, even if they are not necessary, as was demonstrated yesterday. Instead of the Opposition calling for a debate...

Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I accept there is a need for space to debate topical issues but these are just fillers akin to press conferences in the House for Ministers of State.