Results 2,101-2,120 of 6,407 for speaker:Emmet Stagg

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: There is no limit on his time if there is time left.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is not required to call the Tánaiste. There is nothing in Standing Orders that requires him to call the Tánaiste.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I would not like to be cold waiting for that.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister should sit down. He has no entitlement to speak twice.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: On a point of order, the Minister who introduces the motion is not entitled to be called again.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister is acting as if he has a divine right to speak.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: It is the same as last time.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: And we have been-----

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The measure before the House proposes to take money directly from widows, carers, handicapped people, the sick, the unemployed, and children. It will take food off their tables simply to provide cheaper drink. The cost of that will be hungry children and we will have hungry children at the expense of providing cheaper drink. No society could countenance such a measure which results in...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Ceann Comhairle can "look" all he likes.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: We are examining the resolution and putting it into perspective before making a decision. What we are deciding to do is leave children hungry while we reduce the price of drink.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Until the Minister pulled the rug from under them.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Government was afraid of them after the medical card protest. Deputy Brian Lenihan: Child Benefit In the supplementary budget, I raised the issue of the unfairness of paying the same level of child benefit irrespective of the level of income of the recipient. Not only is this unfair but it is also unaffordable in current circumstances. Child benefit this year will cost €2.5 billion...

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I wonder why.

Social Partnership Negotiations. (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Two junior Ministers were conveying the opposite message.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Labour Party will not agree to any Order of Business until the format proposed by the Government for the social welfare Bill is changed. The format as proposed excludes the possibility of dealing with the Bill as set out under Standing Orders. For example, under Standing Order 123 which deals with amendments, amendments to the social welfare Bill, if it is to be taken as indicated by...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: That is the only reason the Bill is being taken and we will oppose the Order of Business until the Government changes its tune on this.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: This is why I call on the Ceann Comhairle to be flexible.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: As I indicated on the previous issue, the Labour Party will not agree to the Order of Business until changes are made to the Government proposal for dealing with the social welfare Bill. For example, the format for the Bill as proposed minimises the possibility of this House debating the various sections on Committee Stage. It is designed to minimise it. We will be asking the Government...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the number of lives that could be saved and the improvement in the quality of life for large numbers of persons that would be achieved by the further development of stroke services including clot buster thrombolysis, acute rehabilitation and stroke units in acute hospitals; the plans in place for such...