Results 4,441-4,460 of 6,407 for speaker:Emmet Stagg

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Deputy does not seem very sincere from what he has been saying.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I am afraid to open my mouth.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Section 4 is the core of the issue as it deals with the cuts of practically every level of social welfare being paid to people under 66 years. We should remind ourselves who they are. In the first instance they are the jobseekers, 420,000 of them now, most of whom were working two years' ago. They are not, therefore, a group of people who do not wish to work but simply people who lost...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: We demonstrated this was possible. I notice the Minister is not here in the Chamber for this very important part of her Bill. She will go down in history as being the person who cut social welfare across the board and not just the shilling off the old-age pensioners. This will create very severe hardship.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: People currently on social welfare are very poor. A single person on social welfare, some of whom may be 50 years of age, have lost their jobs and are on €204 a week, will find their benefit reduced by a significant amount relative to them. They will not receive any extra rent allowance because that is also being changed. It will mean a net loss to them. They live on loaves of bread and...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Of course they did. I just lump them in with Fianna Fáil now. I do not see any difference.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: We heard much bleating and blather from the Deputy who interrupted me about how sad he was that the poor would be hurt by his decision to walk through the lobby tonight. If he walked in the other direction and convinced a few of his colleagues to do likewise, the measures would be rejected, we would have a general election and Deputy Gogarty would be a hero of the those he would save from...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Perhaps it will deliver again before the division tonight, although the Deputy indicated he will vote in favour of the budget. At any rate, I do not wish to engage in chat across the floor. I will speak through the Chair.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I ask the Government and its spokespersons to stop suggesting they have ensured the vulnerable have been protected. The vulnerable are being punished and will not be protected by these measures. They have been targeted exclusively, while the rich, the well-off and those who caused the problem escape once again. There are alternatives, which the Labour Party has outlined in detail.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Given the vicious nature of this measure, the people affected by it and the method used by the Government to rush it - indeed, to bulldoze it through the House - as a teller, under Standing Order 69 I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: It is not just about tax.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Is the Taoiseach sure of that?

(15 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Labour Party opposes that.

Written Answers — Climate Change Conference: Climate Change Conference (15 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress made to date at the Copenhagen climate change conference. [46851/09]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (15 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No 533 of 3 November 2009, the progress made on this issue. [46705/09]

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Do not upset them.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: On the issue of putting the electricity power lines overhead or underground in terms of the non-ionising radiation from power lines, it is much safer from a health and safety point of view to have them overhead than one metre underground. It has long been established that it is much safer from a health and safety point of view.

Appropriation Bill 2009: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I wish to oppose this measure.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Perhaps the Minister of State will circulate his speech?