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Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Nobody said that.

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister is lying to the House.

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Who said that? Who believes it?

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (13 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: For the information of the Deputy, the order this morning covers all his concerns.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (13 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if lack of funding and the imposition of public sector staff cuts are the reason for the inadequate provision of services for the early services programme (details supplied) in County Kildare; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that cuts here led to a number of clinical posts being left vacant including that of...

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Spread it around.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: More consultants.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: What of the Minister?

Public-Private Partnerships. (14 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: It is €370 million.

Public-Private Partnerships. (14 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: The Taoiseach should tell his brother that.

Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (14 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Question 343: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons who are homeless and without shelter in Dublin city and who are obliged to sleep in the open each night; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of such persons have died of the cold as a result since the onset of winter; and his plans to provide emergency shelter to...

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: They forgot about it.

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: On a point of order, Deputies who raise issues on the Order of Business are entitled to individual answers. The Ceann Comhairle is not entitled to lump them all together and get one answer with half of the questions forgotten about. They are entitled to individual answers.

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: I have a point of order.

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: The fact that no members of the press are present in the House to report proceedings essentially arises from a decision of the Office of the Ceann Comhairle, as the chairman of this assembly, where the dress code being imposed without rules on members of the Press Gallery is such that members of the press were ordered from the gallery yesterday by the Ceann Comhairle's staff.

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: The Ceann Comhairle should deal with that.

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the Christmas card he sent me which bears an image of the bell on his desk. My wife, greatly respecting the Ceann Comhairle's office, insists on putting the card in the centre of the mantelpiece. I must look at the bell for the whole yuletide fireside season.

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Next year the Ceann Comhairle might consider putting something else on the card. I appreciate receiving it but I thought during yuletide I might get away from the bloody bell.

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: The Money Advice and Budgeting Service Bill 2002 and the Comhairle (Amendment) Bill 2004 are still on the clár for some reason but the Government has not moved them. This year our sitting time was three weeks shorter than last year. Maybe that is because the Government Chief Whip is so efficient he can get the business done in three weeks less than his predecessor but these Bills are outstanding.

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: It is the Pontius Pilate syndrome: get a quango together and wash one's hands of responsibility.