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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: You collaborated with the Brits.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: You well know what I am talking about.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Fraud (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of personnel involved in the investigation unit of her Department; the number of joint checkpoints with An Garda Síochána and Customs and Excise there were on each of the past five years; and a regional breakdown of those checkpoints. [33264/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Numbers (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of personnel who have retired from her Department and the number of additional staff employed; and the types of contracts they are on during each of the past two years. [33265/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the issue of rural hackneys as detailed in action 46 of the taxi review report and his Department's plans have been discussed by the taxi advisory group; and if not when it will be discussed. [33112/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a new plan for rural hackneys as detailed in action 46 of the taxi review report; and the advice he has sought on this new plan from experts and stakeholders. [33113/13]

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The lies they were telling. Use the word.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Delivery of a universal health scheme was promised by the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and was also in the programme for Government. We were told it would be delivered before the end of the term of the Government, which is in just over two years' time. People are no longer able to afford private health care and are being forced to leave it. The Tánaiste and his party believe in a public...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Will we see it before the end of the term of Government?

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Is Deputy Maloney not into mediation?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Care Services (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32590/13]

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: In a real republic, one that honours the commitments of those who brought this State into being through their sacrifice and struggle, equality would be the watch-word of any Government of the people. It would be at the heart of every policy and would be the aim of every initiative. That kind of approach would not just honour our past but ensure our future, not simply as an economy or a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (Restricted Electrical Works Regulations) 2013: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Whatever about physical work undertaken on a fuse box in a house or otherwise, will interference through the use of electronic equipment, with electrical or other outputs, attract a fine? Magnets and other tools are often used to roll back meters. Is this a matter for Electric Ireland or will such interference be an offence under this regulation and attract penalties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (Restricted Electrical Works Regulations) 2013: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I appreciate that. I was asking if Electric Ireland would be the port of call in relation to interference with meters and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (Restricted Electrical Works Regulations) 2013: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: It is happening a fair bit these days.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (Restricted Electrical Works Regulations) 2013: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: There are various ways of doing it. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (Restricted Electrical Works Regulations) 2013: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I welcome the regulation. I am a technician and am well used to dealing with electrical items. However, the regulation relates to domestic situations, but a broader range needs to be considered. There are rules for factories and other businesses, but some regulations of a similar nature would be useful in that respect. Enforcing this regulation will be difficult. Inspectors have been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that guidance counsellors in many schools are reporting that up to seventy per cent of their case load is now taken up by pastoral care and counselling with higher incidents of self-harm, drug abuse, children suffering from depression, abuse and the effects of family breakdown; and if he will respond...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to the claims that the reduction in the number of school guidance counsellors reflects his lack of understanding of the important role they perform in schools and that he is also denying children and young persons access to important supports and services when at school. [32219/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (2 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I too welcome the additional funding to which the Minister of State referred. It is clear that small but essential adaptations, such as the installation of ramps and hand-rails and the widening of doorways, have been placed on a lower priority list by Dublin City Council. In a number of cases, people are refusing to allow relatives to leave rehabilitation care or hospitals because they...