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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 252: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when tenders will be invited for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [22573/10]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date in providing a new national school for Naas under the patronage of County Kildare Vocational Education Committee; and if the school will be ready for September 2010. [22574/10]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the commitments given by her Department in relation to the provision of capital funding for the building of an autism spectrum disorder unit at a school (details supplied) in Leixlip, County Kildare, and on foot of her review of the file if she will sanction funding for the new project. [22575/10]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will sanction capital funding for four new permanent classrooms at a school (details supplied) in Clane, County Kildare. [22576/10]

Local Government Reform (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 203: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Heritage and Local Government when he will bring forward the White Paper on Local Government [22571/10]

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The letter is inaccurate.

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The Greens are very busy. They are always in here.

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Put me on that list to Dáil Éireann.

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Earlier in the Order of Business debate, as I suppose one could call it, the Tánaiste indicated that she would welcome a decision to change the Standing Orders so that we could have Leaders' Questions on Thursday. If that is the case, all she has to do is tell her Whip, the Whips on the other side of the House will readily accept that and we can do it today so that it is finalised-----

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: -----before next Thursday when we will have orderly Leaders' Questions. It would be a much more orderly process than leaders trying to squeeze in questions under promised legislation. We will do it before next Thursday if the Tánaiste agrees. The other point I want to raise is that Deputy Durkan is not a lone voice on the issue of parliamentary questions and answers.

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: There are two problems and the Ceann Comhairle is aware of them. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for writing to the Ministers - in fact, his predecessor did the same - for all the good it did. They ignored the Ceann Comhairle and the CPP which wrote to them and told them that they should answer questions properly. Most of them did not even bother to acknowledge the letter from the Ceann...

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The most flowery answer came from the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, who is still the worst offender.

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The other issue the CPP wrote about was Ministers half-answering questions. If there are two parts to a question, they will answer one and leave the other unanswered. In fact, we proposed changing Standing Orders to deal with that and I would ask the Government Whip again, through the Chair, to look at that particular Standing Order-----

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: -----that was prepared by the officials in the House to deal with that particular aspect of it. There is another issue I want to raise briefly. Last Thursday morning, I asked the Tánaiste about the Murphy report and the 90 provisions of that report, which are being implemented and for which a plan is in place to implement them. I asked whether the Minister of State would come into the...

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The letter worked.

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The missing Minister.

Order of Business. (27 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: If the Tánaiste agrees we can have it straight away.

Order of Business (Resumed) (26 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: You always are.

Order of Business (Resumed) (26 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: The line Minister does not answer questions.

Written Answers — Bovine Disease Controls: Bovine Disease Controls (26 May 2010)

Emmet Stagg: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the change to TB testing rules to allow the slaughter of cattle that are more than 12 months since their last TB test will carry an additional cost for farmers; if additional testing as part of the scheme is required; the implications that the changes may have on contiguous herds; and if he will make a statement on the...