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Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Why can we not group the questions?

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: It does not make sense.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Táim an-bhuíoch as labhairt ar an ábhar seo. I am thankful to be speaking on this subject. I also wish to express my gratitude to Edward Snowden for his courageous work in exposing the USA’s secret spying programme. During the summer, we learned that US agencies were secretly bugging the EU mission and member states in New York and its embassy in Washington, as well...

Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: As a result of the announcement of €10 million in the budget for the remediation of properties with pyrite, can the Taoiseach confirm whether the pyrite levy Bill is being withdrawn or is it dead in the water? This fund will go nowhere near to addressing the problems. It will cost roughly €30,000 to €60,000 for each home, so only 250 homes could be delivered based on...

Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Okay.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 28. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government where funding for the proposed €30 million social housing boost in the recent budget will be sourced from; how it will be allocated; and if there are any short, medium and longer-term deadlines for implementation of this scheme. [44834/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 48. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way in which funding for the €100 million investment in housing for the elderly in the recent budget announcements has been sourced; the way it will be allocated; the criteria for persons seeking to be housed with this initiative; and if there are any short, medium and longer term deadlines for implementation....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare Bodies (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to help relocate the Ballymun Dogs Trust, which will be without a premises soon due to the regeneration of its current location in Balbutcher Lane, Dublin 9. [45082/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare Bodies (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the impending closure of Assisi Animal Clinic due to the regeneration of Ballymun and the demolition of the flat block from which it operated; his plans to help this organisation to relocate considering the important work it does in the community. [45083/13]

Older Citizens: Motion [Private Members]: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I dtús báire, caithfidh mé a rá go bhfuil mé i bhfábhar an rún seo ar ghnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha. I agree with the sentiment represented by the motion. It reads like a clear enough statement that there were fairer options this Government could have chosen in budget 2014 but did not. It makes the point that it will create financial...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: So they had no reason to protest, had they?

Other Questions: Expenditure Reviews (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 58. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any progress has been made on a website portal and joint commercial and marketing strategy as outlined in the Comprehensive Review of Expendidure 2012-2014; if he will outline that progress; the projected income that such an initiative might accrue to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44239/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Submissions (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 8 October 2013, if he will name the political party mentioned in his reply that submitted their budget proposals to his Department for costing and if any other party did so prior to Budget 2014. [44180/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 217. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form a list of the countries of origin of all bodies which took part in Industrial Development Agency visits in 2012 and to the end of September 2013; the counties they visited and the number of jobs that resulted from these visits. [44215/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 350. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of money from the recently announced jobs stimulus capital programme that will be spent on social housing building; the deadline for applications by local authorities for this funding; the dates on whch decisions may be expected on the local authority applications; the date(s) on which the funding will...

Topical Issue Matters: Local Authority Staff Code of Conduct (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister of State for her response. We all await the views of the county manager in respect of the audit. I fear that we have seen more of this activity in other councils. The matter in Louth has been brought to our attention. I am not saying for one minute that what was done was wrong to the extent that there was very serious intent but I fear there could be other cases in...

Topical Issue Matters: Local Authority Staff Code of Conduct (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Over the years we have had many issues with planners and planning. Inquiries and investigations have been carried out and hundreds of millions spent on tribunals with little or no return or convictions. Of course I do not for a moment suggest that the issues I raise are in the same category but, nonetheless, they are serious. This issue has been brought to my attention and that of others,...

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Many of us take for granted the beauty that is the gift of hearing. It is something we rarely consider and something we even curse at times in these days of constant din. Dublin is a noisy city and Leinster House is a noisy place with the constant chatter, the whirr of air vents, the clinking of radiators and so forth. We try to drown much of this out and to ignore the noise of daily...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Think of all of those who have emigrated.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has conducted research assessing the impact of changes to the State pension for future pensioner poverty. [43682/13]