Results 2,481-2,500 of 4,706 for speaker:Dessie Ellis

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: In the last budget the Government cut housing by €60 million.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: What happened at-----

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: We are in a crisis.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: Táim an-bhuíoch labhairt ar son an PMB seo. The past few years has seen chronic and constant confusion with regard to medical cards. Many of the cases that I have come across in my constituency have defied imagination in terms of the reasons given for the refusal to grant their medical cards. We are witnessing a startling fall in the number of persons who are granted or...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (13 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: Irish to follow. We have waited more than three years for a significant legislation on housing from this Government. This Bill is certainly significant and contains some improvements to how local authority tenancies are managed but it will do very little to change the course of the housing crisis we currently face. Currently, just under 90,000 households are on housing waiting lists across...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Services Funding (13 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister. In the past, the HSE promised the centre funding for a specific number of staff and 40 children and operational costs, which never materialised. Instead, it reduced funding by €300,000 in the past five years. Had the commitment been honoured, it would have given an additional €191,000 for 2014. The Minister could investigate whether the HSE reneged on a...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Services Funding (13 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I welcome the Minister to his new job and wish him all the best in it. There is a crisis developing in our public crèches throughout the country and in particular with the Jigsaw project, the Darndale Belcamp Integrated Childcare Services. Over the past few years, there have been cuts to the budgets across a broad range of funders. In the case of Darndale, 260 child care places are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Establishment (13 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make a report on the possibility of opening an Educate Together secondary school in the Dublin north west area. [21324/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of increasing numbers at risk of homelessness due to rising rents, if she has issued instructions to community welfare officers to use their discretion to breach rent supplement caps in the case where a recipient is at risk of losing their home, if she has not, if she will do so immediately; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has carried out any review of the effectiveness and benefit of certificate of professional competence, CPC, courses for professional drivers; if so, what were his findings and, if not, if he will commit to one as soon as possible. [20632/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that certificate of professional competence, CPC, courses for professional drivers are relevant or useful to those taking them; and his plans to reform the model in operation, possibly by adding an on-the-road element to the course curriculum. [20661/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: My point is that some local authorities are not even doing that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I addressed a couple of questions to the local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: The issue here is that it is being watered down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: The problem we have with this issue is that the rules seem to differ across the various local authorities. Some local authorities are adopting a hardline attitude to the owners of properties and will not move until the issue of ownership is resolved. Dublin City Council has been much more flexible in the sense that it accepts there is a housing need. It will allow a person to access rent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I have other meetings to attend. We know there is a massive housing crisis, and a homelessness crisis in particular. Since 2008 we have had cuts of €1 billion in the housing budget. We should not mask the figures. Even last year €60 million was cut from the housing budget. We keep hearing that more funding is being added but that is not the case. We should put that in the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Discounted Travel Schemes (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount it would cost his Department to extend discounted travel schemes to everyone in full-time education under the age of 18 years old. [20446/14]

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: Down the road they will privatise it, when all the concessions are gone.

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: It happened with the bin charges. There were waivers for the first few months and then they privatised it.

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I have to respond to what they are saying.