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Written Answers — Payment Delivery Service: Payment Delivery Service (1 Mar 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the decision of his Department to extend the delivery services contract with An Post. [7918/07]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made in discussions with the EU Commission regarding the possibility of providing free travel passes to Irish pensioners resident abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7917/07]

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Emmet Stagg: As amended.

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Is that the promised legislation?

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Emmet Stagg: When will it be published?

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Emmet Stagg: On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle. Whoever is acting for the Taoiseach on the day is also responsible for answering about statutory instruments.

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Emmet Stagg: One can make the excuse that one does not know and that the information will be sent to the Deputy. One cannot say a question should be tabled to a Minister.

Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)

Emmet Stagg: That was a good idea.

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (28 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the projects and schemes to be administered by his Department under the National Development Plan 2007 to 2013; the way these schemes will be funded outside of money already pledged in the Budget and Estimates processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7692/07]

Statute Law Revision Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Unlike my Fine Gael colleague I did not sit up all night burning the midnight oil on this issue. However, I wish to acknowledge the assistance given to me in this matter by the Labour Party legal adviser, Mr. Finbar O'Malley, in researching the area and in helping me to construct a sensible speech on the matter. This Bill is undoubtedly welcome. It breaks the back of a task that has been...

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (28 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I seek leave under Standing Order 31 to have Dáil business suspended to discuss a matter of local and national importance, namely, the fact that serious crime in the Carlow-Kildare division rose by 12% in 2006 compared to a 1.4% increase nationally and has risen by 74% since 2000; the continuing undermanning of the Garda force in the Carlow-Kildare division where we have one garda for every...

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: That is gone now.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: The Taoiseach has back up from the PDs anyway.

Written Answers — Radon Gas Awareness: Radon Gas Awareness (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 130: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money spent in 2006 in highlighting public awareness of radon and on improving information to householders and employers in order to enable and encourage them to address monitoring or remedial requirements effectively and economically. [7342/07]

Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: No.

Housing Grants. (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 86: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce a grant to people whose homes have been identified with high radon gas concentrations and who are living alone on a weekly State pension of €209.30, to assist them with the cost of retrofitting their home against radon gas. [7620/07]

Housing Grants. (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I welcome the last part of the answer; the rest I knew fairly well already, having asked the question perhaps 15 times in the course of the Government's life. I am a very strong believer in pursuing matters to the point where the responsible person is caught. I thank the Minister for his helpful inclusion of radon remediation under the grant scheme. Perhaps we might go a little further....

Housing Grants. (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: I hope the Minister of State does not take the good out of it.

Housing Grants. (27 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: It is important that we do not allow a red herring to be drawn across the trail. The Minister of State will be aware of many international studies on radon gas and smoking. Even where there is an overlap, the evidence is very clear that radon gas is a lethal killer, causing lung cancer; in Ireland, it is estimated to cause 200 deaths per year. It is quite extraordinary that we do not pay...

Written Answers — Recidivism Rate: Recidivism Rate (22 Feb 2007)

Emmet Stagg: Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the findings of recent research undertaken by the UCD Institute of Criminology which found that more than a quarter of the State's prisoners were back in jail within a year of their release; his views on this rate of recidivism; the steps he will take to deal with same; and...