Results 1,121-1,140 of 6,407 for speaker:Emmet Stagg
- Order of Business. (9 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: Members sitting behind the Minister are enthusiastic about it.
- Business of Dáil. (9 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: All the other parties have agreed to the changes proposed by the Minister.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (9 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: As with the children's allowance.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (9 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: The Minister's answer was mostly waffle. We did not ask him to outline the entire scheme, which we know very well. The Minister promised he would do his best to introduce this scheme but I feel let down, disappointed and ashamed by the lack of effort. I am determined to get the Minister to reverse his position. His advice is wrong, I advise him to ignore it, and I say this advisedly. Is the...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (9 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: The Minister has considered many items today on the basis of advice from the Opposition. If he cannot get around the difficulties he outlined, will he consider introducing free travel for all pensioners who visit Ireland? Perhaps it would be a great tourist attraction. It might be a good investment from the State's point of view to give such free travel at off-peak times. I do not know what...
- Order of Business. (14 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: It can be raised but the Taoiseach will not answer the question.
- Rent Supplement: Motion. (14 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: The person would be caught to pay tax.
- Written Answers — Radon Gas: Radon Gas (14 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: Question 117: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his resistance to the introduction of a radon remediation grant scheme for householders is based on his acceptance that for those exposed to similar concentrations of radon, the risk of contracting lung cancer is 25 times greater for those who smoke, and that the vast majority of the radon induced lung...
- Written Answers — Radon Gas: Radon Gas (14 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Question No. 16 of 29 November 2005, the EU member states that operate a radon grant scheme; and the details of same. [5210/06]
- Written Answers — Benchmarking Awards: Benchmarking Awards (14 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: Question 321: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when benchmarking will be awarded to home helps operating in County Kildare. [5481/06]
- Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: Houses for investors, subsidised by taxpayers.
- Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: Nobody can afford them.
- Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: Who told the Deputy that?
- Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: The Deputy must have had some of the magic mushrooms.
- Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: I want to declare, on behalf of the Labour Party, the right to a home, to a roof over one's head, for every citizen of this Republic and the right to a roof that does not pauperise the family or the individual. Our current system has failed to deliver this. A total of 60,000 families or approximately 180,000 men, women and children are in short-term, private rented accommodation they cannot...
- Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: Of 7,000 dwellings built in County Kildare in the past two years, two were affordable houses.
- Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: It used trickery.
- Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: Is money not available?
- Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: The Minister of State should throw away the script.
- Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)
Emmet Stagg: It will take 100 years to address the backlog.