Late TD Emmet Stagg recalled as ‘constant advocate for direct building of social housing’

Emmet Stagg was Labour chief whip between 2007 and 2016, and was deputy Government whip during the 2011-2016 government. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

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He was Labour chief whip from 2007 to 2016, and was deputy Government whip during the coalition with Fine Gael between 2011 and 2016. Responsible for housing while he was serving as a minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Ms Bacik said, Mr Stagg “proudly spoke later of his record of building homes and reducing housing lists, and how the level of homes being delivered was ramped up from 800 units a year to 10,000″.

There was controversy in 1994 after two newspapers reported on an incident in the Phoenix Park in late 1993 where Mr Stagg had been questioned by gardaí in an area frequented by gay men. No crime had been committed and no charges were ever brought about the incident.

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