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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (17 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 371: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has sought tenders in respect of the completion of a project (details supplied) in County Kildare; the closing date for receipt of tenders; if priority will be given to the preparation of the tender report following receipt of the tenders; if the actual tender requires the winning contractor to be on site to complete the...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: There will be four common or garden Bills guillotined today. There is no great emergency with any of them and we could have taken any of them any time since last September.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: However, guillotines have now become a management tool applied by the Government to the work of this Chamber. The purpose of the Chamber is to examine legislation and to hold the Government to account. Large sections of the legislation, especially important legislation, that goes through the Chamber is not debated at all because it is guillotined by the Government. It is not only...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: We should change the rules. The Government sets them aside every morning by stating that regardless of what is in Standing Orders it will do what it wishes because it has a majority.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: We should change the rules to prevent that happening, except for an emergency. That is what the guillotine was intended for and nothing else. However, it is now being used here every morning as a management tool to get the opinions and legislation of the Executive through without debate in this Chamber.

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has provided additional funding to the rural areas affected by recent flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47025/09]

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans to assist the rural communities affected by the recent flooding; if he has visited the communities affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47026/09]

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Perhaps the Minister of State will circulate his speech?

Appropriation Bill 2009: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: I wish to oppose this measure.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: On the issue of putting the electricity power lines overhead or underground in terms of the non-ionising radiation from power lines, it is much safer from a health and safety point of view to have them overhead than one metre underground. It has long been established that it is much safer from a health and safety point of view.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Do not upset them.

Written Answers — Climate Change Conference: Climate Change Conference (15 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress made to date at the Copenhagen climate change conference. [46851/09]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (15 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No 533 of 3 November 2009, the progress made on this issue. [46705/09]

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: It is not just about tax.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Is the Taoiseach sure of that?

(15 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: The Labour Party opposes that.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Given the vicious nature of this measure, the people affected by it and the method used by the Government to rush it - indeed, to bulldoze it through the House - as a teller, under Standing Order 69 I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: Section 4 is the core of the issue as it deals with the cuts of practically every level of social welfare being paid to people under 66 years. We should remind ourselves who they are. In the first instance they are the jobseekers, 420,000 of them now, most of whom were working two years' ago. They are not, therefore, a group of people who do not wish to work but simply people who lost...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Emmet Stagg: We demonstrated this was possible. I notice the Minister is not here in the Chamber for this very important part of her Bill. She will go down in history as being the person who cut social welfare across the board and not just the shilling off the old-age pensioners. This will create very severe hardship.