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Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: That payment is not allowed for this.

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Government sets policy which the commission implements.

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: It is just another quango.

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (12 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the recent attack on a village (details supplied) in east Congo and where the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has admitted that the incident was made worse by subsequent failings by UN peacekeeping forces [36116/10]

Written Answers — Millennium Development Goals: Millennium Development Goals (12 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government will make its pledge to reach 0.7% of GDP spending on overseas development aid real by ringfencing ODA from spending cuts, as the UK Government has done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36115/10]

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (12 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 464: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when Ireland signed the Aarhus Convention and when it is intended that Ireland will ratify that convention, and if in the meantime an Aarhus certificate can be applied for to cover a suitable subject for such a certificate in Ireland in view of the fact that the convention has been signed but not ratified to...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (12 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 465: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money collected to date from the landfill levy; the intended use of the moneys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36349/10]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (12 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 466: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the operators of the landfill at a location (details supplied) in County Kildare paid the landfill levies required; if not, the amount outstanding and the efforts being made to collect same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36350/10]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (12 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 467: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to cover the control and remediation of abandoned or orphaned landfill sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36351/10]

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: That hardly needs agreement.

Written Answers — Explosive Ordinance: Explosive Ordinance (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of occasions in 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010 in which grenades, bombs or improvised explosive devices have been used; the number of occasions in each year when the Garda called on the assistance of the Army ordinance unit to deal with such devices; the number of prosecutions initiated as a result of the discovery...

Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the total strength of the Garda Síochána at the latest date for which figures are available broken down by full members, those who have attested but not yet concluded their training, those in training; the expected number that will be recruited during 2010, the total anticipated numbers at each above category at the end of 2010,...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: A lot of good it did him.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: It was vetoed at the next meeting.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Whips have been trying to change Standing Orders.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: On a point of order. Your interpretation, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, is wrong. It is not a matter for the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, it is a question of changing the Standing Orders of the House so that Ministers have to answer questions about quangos. We now have some 250 quangos. Ministers will not answer questions about them even though they are funded out of the public...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: They are changed through the Dáil reform committee, which the Government refuses to call meetings of.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Tánaiste should tell her spin doctors.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Will legislation will be required to transfer?

Written Answers — Rural Transport: Rural Transport (6 Oct 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Transport his view's on the development of a rural transport policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35069/10]