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Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Emmet Stagg: He often does that.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Government's policies did a great job with them, anyway. They were a great success.

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (25 Nov 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 40: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce a change to the method by which bonds are calculated in view of the unprecedented number of ghost estates. [44397/10]

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (25 Nov 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 48: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason a proposal by a town council to implement a rates waiver scheme under section 2 of the Local Government Rates Act 1970 was rejected by him. [44396/10]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (30 Nov 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the specific measures he has taken to combat inaccurate advertising of broadband speeds by telecommunications companies here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44998/10]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (30 Nov 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be seen by a speech and language therapist at Maynooth health centre. [45327/10]

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Live horse and you will get grass.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: On a point of order, the Minister of State should check his script lest he mislead the Dáil inadvertently, since what he is saying is total rubbish. It does not fit with the facts.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Deputy Stanton can call it, himself.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Will there be Christmas drinks?

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: What is the Minister of State talking about?

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister of State will be aware that the Committee on Procedures and Privileges is the body which looks after our Standing Orders and is, therefore, in charge of Dáil reform. A sub-committee of the CPP sits in private. I agree that it should meet in private and disagree with my colleague on that point. That being said, would the Minister of State agree that the system of seeking...

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: -----on Dáil and institutional reform? Is the Minister of State aware that the Labour Party is putting forward a comprehensive proposal on Dáil and institutional reform? Is he further aware that Fine Gael and the Labour Party published a joint document before the last election on such reform? If we get a mandate, is he aware that we will implement that Dáil reform programme without a...

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: We will change the system of making decisions and we will get a mandate from the public to do that. Is the Minister of State aware that at the last full meeting of the Dáil reform sub-committee, chaired by then Government Chief Whip, Deputy Pat Carey, at which all parties agreed a limited package of reform to better use our time, Deputy Carey had to tell us-----

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: I am asking the Minister of State whether he is aware of this.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: I am asking if he is aware of this because on the basis of what he read out, he is not. The Government Chief Whip on that day had to tell the Opposition Whips that he was vetoed by the Taoiseach. He could not proceed any further and that was the end of Dáil reform. The Taoiseach vetoed progress. Deputy Curran should not bother with another meeting of the Dáil reform sub-committee before...

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: I am waiting a long time to contribute. Will the Ceann Comhairle give me an opportunity? Does the Minister of State agree that creating 1,000 quangos over the past 15 years has reduced to the House to a nonsense? Our power is given to us by the people and we have transferred that power from the House to 1,000 nameless so-called independent quangos.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: I will finish with this question. Does the Minister of State agree that the HSE is the only quango about which one can ask a question, even though it might take six months to get the answer? When we had health boards, questions had to be answered within three days. Fellows in charge of the health service are paid millions of euro in wages and they cannot answer a question for six months,...

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister of State should not bother having a meeting of the sub-committee.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Emmet Stagg: One can get a mandate.