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Order of Business (6 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: I do not bother the Ceann Comhairle too often and he should give me some leeway. I refer to the issue of quangos, which has been raised by the Minister for Finance, who described Government by quangos as not being Government at all. I refer to the need to have responsibility in the House and the democratic deficit that arises from the widespread use of quangos to the exclusion of the matter...

Order of Business (6 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Taoiseach might say something to the Chief Whip.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: No, that is not right.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Taoiseach is going against his own Whip.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: We had agreement but when the Government Chief Whip brought it back to Government it was vetoed.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: It is another quango over which we have no control.

Written Answers — Rural Transport: Rural Transport (6 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Transport his view's on the development of a rural transport policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35069/10]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (6 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals for a motorway linking Dublin to Derry via Aughnacloy; the proposed cost of the project here; the cost to the Exchequer in each case; the time scale for delivery of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35070/10]

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Tánaiste should tell her spin doctors.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Will legislation will be required to transfer?

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: A lot of good it did him.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: It was vetoed at the next meeting.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Whips have been trying to change Standing Orders.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: On a point of order. Your interpretation, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, is wrong. It is not a matter for the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, it is a question of changing the Standing Orders of the House so that Ministers have to answer questions about quangos. We now have some 250 quangos. Ministers will not answer questions about them even though they are funded out of the public...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: They are changed through the Dáil reform committee, which the Government refuses to call meetings of.

Written Answers — Explosive Ordinance: Explosive Ordinance (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of occasions in 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010 in which grenades, bombs or improvised explosive devices have been used; the number of occasions in each year when the Garda called on the assistance of the Army ordinance unit to deal with such devices; the number of prosecutions initiated as a result of the discovery...

Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the total strength of the Garda Síochána at the latest date for which figures are available broken down by full members, those who have attested but not yet concluded their training, those in training; the expected number that will be recruited during 2010, the total anticipated numbers at each above category at the end of 2010,...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: That hardly needs agreement.

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (12 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the recent attack on a village (details supplied) in east Congo and where the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has admitted that the incident was made worse by subsequent failings by UN peacekeeping forces [36116/10]

Written Answers — Millennium Development Goals: Millennium Development Goals (12 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government will make its pledge to reach 0.7% of GDP spending on overseas development aid real by ringfencing ODA from spending cuts, as the UK Government has done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36115/10]