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Leaders' Questions (7 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: They did not work. We were right to oppose them.

Leaders' Questions (7 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: They did not work.

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 25: To ask the Minister for Transport when he last met all of the stakeholders involved in the preparation works for the big dig and the upcoming major infrastructural works in Dublin for metro north, the Luas link-up and the Dublin rail interconnector; when the public information campaign on the big dig will begin; the date for the launch of the proposed bus gate; and if he will...

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of the planning and tendering processes for metro north; the amount of public and private funding which will be spent on metro north in 2009 and in each year to 2015 and from 2015 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13682/09]

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister said it about Deputy Broughan.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister said it three times this morning.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: On a point of order, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle should ask the Minister to withdraw the accusation that Deputy Broughan is a liar. He made it three times this morning.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Whether the Leas-Cheann Comhairle heard it or not he said it three times. The rest of us are not deaf. I am fairly deaf and I heard it.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I am tempted to say that he is a liar.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: There is.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: On a point of order, the Tánaiste might be inadvertently misleading the House. The Whips arranged the time for a social welfare Bill at their meeting last night. It is not in anticipation of anything, but in the knowledge that social welfare rates will be cut.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Do not tell us these are normal circumstances.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I seek the Chair's assistance. It is a fundamental right of Members to ask questions of Ministers and to get whatever information the Minister has on the issue. It is a mainstay of democracy that we have that right in this House. I asked the Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey, a parliamentary question, Question No. 13421/09, on 31 March. The Minister chose to ignore the question...

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: This is a fundamental matter. Recently, the Ceann Comhairle wrote to Ministers, arising particularly from the attitude of the Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey, to the House, asking them to answer the questions they are asked. The Minister for Transport, in his usual arrogant and contemptuous manner, has again ignored both the Ceann Comhairle and the rules of democracy.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister did not give me the answer. He is an arrogant man. He ignored my question completely.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister should withdraw it.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The arrogance.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: He only dealt with half of it because he did not deal——

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I am not asking the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to do that.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The appropriate thing would be for the Minister to withdraw his remark.