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Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Question 445: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of times compulsory purchase orders have been used in the past 20 years to acquire sites for national schools and the details of same. [39849/05]

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Question 446: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to the €18 million unspent on the disabled persons grant scheme nationally in 2004, if he has put in place a monitoring system throughout the local authorities which will enable him to reallocate funds from authorities who will not use up their allocation in 2005 to authorities who at present have...

Written Answers — Local Authority Status: Local Authority Status (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Question 447: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Question No. 653 of 15 November 2005, the groups, including local government interests, with whom he has consulted on this issue. [39868/05]

Written Answers — Community Wardens: Community Wardens (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Question 448: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to continue the pilot community warden service in Naas, County Kildare in 2006. [39870/05]

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Question 449: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has approved the contract documents for the lower Liffey Valley sewerage scheme. [39882/05]

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Question 450: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the constraints of the cap on local authority staffing levels for local authorities in the greater Dublin area in view of he enormous population increase these local authorities have had to cater for since December 2002; if he will sanction the increase in staffing levels required to enable...

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.

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: What words can we use other than "frig"?

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.

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...

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.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Spread it around.