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Unemployment Levels: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: In that case, the Government should pay them their social welfare.

Unemployment Levels: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Pay their social welfare then.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a replacement speech and language therapist will be provided at Kill Health Centre, County Kildare; if the recruitment embargo is preventing the hiring of a replacement therapist (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24030/09]

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: It is not agreed to. This is the same issue again. The Executive is using the guillotine as a routine management tool to manage the legislative programme, thereby bypassing this legislative assembly whose constitutional role it is to examine and pass legislation. It cannot fulfil that role if legislation is routinely guillotined before it is debated fully. There was no need for the...

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Of course it is; that is why it should be debated.

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: It is very far-reaching and important.

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Bill is being guillotined.

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (18 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of the proposed budget of €7 million which has been spent to date on ocean energy projects; if he will provide an overview of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24055/09]

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: We said there was no need for a guillotine.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Government insisted on including a guillotine at time when it was unnecessary and we lost three and a half hours debating time.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: It is only supposed to be for an emergency. That is the norm.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: It needs another day.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Surely a Deputy is entitled to amend the time allocated, which is what is proposed.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: It is a time motion.

Written Answers — Defence Forces Chaplains: Defence Forces Chaplains (23 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Defence the breakdown of the denominations of the chaplains and officiating clergy paid for by the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24705/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (23 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Defence the expected breakdown of the €4.372 million in professional, consultant and specialist fees in the medical treatment of military personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24706/09]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (23 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 506: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has received correspondence from the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if he will provide the information requested; and if he will sanction the progression of the school to the next stage. [24725/09]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (23 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 507: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the contract has been signed for a new national school at a location (details supplied) in County Kildare; the value of the contract; the contractor chosen; and the date the construction will commence on site. [24726/09]

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Government imposed cutbacks to services for sick children in Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin. Recently the House debated the horrific abuse of children at the hands of the religious and the State. It was resolved on all sides of the House that no such thing would ever be allowed to happen again. While that...

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I told him the solution 100 times. He sat with the fat cat builders and got us into the mess we are in.