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- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases) (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: As a teller, under Standing Order 69, and given the failure of the Government to recognise the importance of the issue at hand, I propose that the vote be taken other than by electronic means.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: On a point of order, we were circulated with the Order of Business by the Government before the Order of Business was taken. The order states: "(2) the resumed Report and Final Stages of No. 18 shall be taken today and the proceedings thereon shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 10.30 p.m. tonight by one Question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall,...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: We were advised by the Government Whip on the floor of the House during the vote about which I am talking-----
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: I want to get clarification about where the order came from or the status of it-----
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: -----because the Ceann Comhairle did not read it out.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: I am not finished, a Cheann Comhairle. You did not read out the order to which you are now referring. You did not bring that to our attention.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: Neither did the Government. Nobody read out what you are now referring to. What was read out is what I have here now, which was circulated.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: It was not amended subsequently.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: If there was an attempt at amending it, nobody was told about it. The Government slipped up yesterday-----
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: -----and its officials slipped up by getting the amendment through.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: A Cheann Comhairle, for the information of the House can you tell us under what Standing Order-----
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: Can the House rescind a decision made yesterday?
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: I must read it again.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: I am being very orderly. I have Standing Order 26 to hand. One would want to have a mind of elastic to try to stretch into that Standing Order the ability to give power to the Government to actually change a decision made yesterday. There is nothing like that in the Standing Order. However that Standing Order could be applied to this situation, it is simply ordering the business of the...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: There is no power available to him to do that.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: The vote was called. There would be no action on it until later in the day.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: We know that.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: On a point of order, when we are discussing the ordering of Government business, the Ceann Comhairle has got into the habit of giving us helpful advice to kick it to touch into Private Members' time. That is not what we are talking about.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: That is not the business we are dealing with on the Order of Business, which concerns Government time and how it should be allocated. There is a proposal from the Government and we are entitled to raise questions.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)
Emmet Stagg: The advice of the Ceann Comhairle is to refer it to Private Members' time and this is not in order.