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Written Answers — State Property: State Property (30 Mar 2004)

Emmet Stagg: Question 471: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a Deputy (details supplied), being mandated by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, announced to the National Association of Regional Game Councils AGM in Cavan in October 2003 that the Minister would allow a return to shooting on...

Leaders' Questions. (30 Mar 2004)

Emmet Stagg: These are her proposals.

Written Answers — Tax Compliance. : Tax Compliance. (17 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has concluded his consideration of correspondence received from the Standards in Public Office Commission drawing his attention to limitations in the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995, arising from consideration of a case (details supplied); if he has now decided on the steps to be taken to address the issues raised by the commission; and if...

Written Answers — Offshore Accounts: Offshore Accounts (17 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Finance the basis of the recent reported settlement between the Revenue Commissioners and the owners of Ansbacher Cayman arising from the Ansbacher inquiry; the amount paid in settlement; if this represents the full and final settlement of tax liability by the owners; the amount still estimated to be outstanding in terms of the tax liability of others...

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: The House might note this is another Bill among the 100% of Bills since Christmas to be guillotined.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: Verifiability is the issue here and the Taoiseach did not deal with it.

Written Answers — Departmental Restructuring: Departmental Restructuring (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the proposals produced by the Amicus-MSF trade union for a restructuring of her Department, which would include the creation of a separate department of labour; her views on the proposals made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3804/04]

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she intends to bring forward the promised amendments to legislation to provide for increased penalties for breaches of industrial relations law, and especially for breaching the terms of registered building agreements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3805/04]

Written Answers — Planning and Development Act 2000: Planning and Development Act 2000 (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: Question 449: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if regulations bringing into force section 261 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 have been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3943/04]

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: That is because the Government guillotines all the Bills.

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: The second last contribution was a typical, self-righteous schoolmistressy lecture from the Minister of State. I am well accustomed to it. We have to listen to it at the Whips' meetings every week, well laced with a high degree of hypocrisy.

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: The Government amendment to this motion tonight suggests that Dáil reform is a continuous process and is best advanced by cross-party agreement through the sub-committee on Dáil reform, which was established for that purpose — I am quoting from the Minister of State's amendment. However, the Government's true intentions are made apparent by the fact that the sub-committee, chaired by the...

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: If it has, I was not invited to the meeting.

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister of State might have raised an issue at a Whips' meeting to try to cherry-pick something out of a report she had nothing to do with. However, she certainly did not convene the Dáil reform committee since her appointment as its chairperson.

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: I thought it was a Whips' meeting and something was stuck in at the end of the agenda, but I did not see a Dáil reform committee, since the Minister of State was appointed anyway. There was not one new idea in a single point proposed by the Minister of State. It is all contained in the document produced by the previous Dáil reform committee and she cherry-picked out the pieces that suit...

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: There is much more in that report. I inform the Minister of State that she had absolutely nothing to do with introducing Leaders' Questions. That was done by the present Leas-Cheann Comhairle when he was Ceann Comhairle. He introduced the system in the House, independent of Government.

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: That is where that came from. The Minister of State is taking credit where it is not due and pinching other people's ideas, pretending they are hers and doing nothing about implementing them. She creates confrontation in this debate and there is no need for it, no more than at the Whips' meetings every week. There is no chance of getting the agreement that is necessary from all sides of the...

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: I rise this evening in support of the motion submitted on behalf of Fine Gael. Speaking on behalf of a party whose constant theme has been the necessity to secure the accountability of Government in this House and its Members, I welcome any proposal, however modest in its terms, to advance that cause. Specifically, Standing Order 26 provides that the Taoiseach, a member of the Government or...

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: There may well be sound reasons a Taoiseach would feel the need to take new and urgent business on a Thursday but, as matters stand, he cannot do so.

Standing Orders: Motion. (10 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: That is not a point of order.