Results 4,341-4,360 of 6,407 for speaker:Emmet Stagg
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: Let me recap. This morning the Order of Business stated "that the Order of Business today shall be as follows ... No. a4, Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009, Order for Second Stage". That is part of the business we must conduct today.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: It also lists Second and Remaining Stages. Is the Ceann Comhairle suggesting that Second Stage is automatic as well because we passed the Order of Business this morning? That would be absolute nonsense. The schedule is absolutely clear. I have here three precedents where votes were called on the Order for Second Stage. The only case where the Ceann Comhairle ruled it out of order was...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: We cannot allow proceedings to continue and to set a new precedent where there is no requirement for an Order for Second Stage of a Bill.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: That would be absolutely unprecedented. Could I therefore-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: We are now proceeding-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: We have no authority to proceed.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: There is no authority to proceed with Second Stage without an Order for Second Stage. There was none.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: It is not serious disorder.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: Of course I will, when you ask me to.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: We are not being pedantic. Fianna Fáil was afraid to have a vote that it would lose.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: I will be brief.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: I will brief about this because I think the matter is decided. If the Ceann Comhairle decides on something he is in the same position as a Pope, he cannot say he is wrong or the whole house of cards would come tumbling down.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: In my experience I have never heard a Ceann Comhairle say he was wrong. They would always find some precedent for whatever mistake they have made.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: A Cheann Comhairle, we have found loads of precedents.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: I do not want to challenge any further now.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: The Ceann Comhairle said the blacks are only a draft. We have an audio and visual record of what the Minister said. There is no point in the Ceann Comhairle giving us another version of what she said because that is what she said later in the day.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: That is what she said later in the day. Given that the Minister-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: May I finish the point?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: Let me finish and then I will stop.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Emmet Stagg: Very briefly, given the experience of the Minister as a Government Whip, which she boasted about earlier, it is amazing that she made the mistake she did by proposing an order that was not required, according to herself and according to the Ceann Comhairle.