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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether the development of sustainable, permanent social housing owned by local authorities is an important part of the drive to end long term homelessness. [12957/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's pursuit of the use of social housing bonds to develop more permanent social housing units particularly those that would be in public ownership. [12956/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for measures to ensure that local authorities properly draw down funding allocated to them in order to provide for the needs of local people to whom they are responsible, especially in the case of traveller specific accommodation. [12958/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make a commitment to local authority tenants that their rents will not increase or other services be cut as a result of the levying of the property tax on local authority properties. [12959/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the removal of pyrite from affected homes; the numbers that have successfully been completed in targets for 2013; and when the remediation scheme proposed will be operational. [12960/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on works to an estate (details supplied) in County Longford including the specific works that have been carried out; the timetable for future works and any additional funding which may be available or needed. [12961/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown on a Dáil constituency basis of the number of persons on social housing waiting lists, specifying numbers waiting five years and more and ten years and more. [12962/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to ensure better community relations between the Traveller and settled community particularly in areas which have experienced difficulties with this in the past. [12963/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Statistics (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of publicly owned social housing units that were delivered in 2011 and 2012 respectively; and the targets for same in 2013. [12964/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is undertaking to ensure an improved system of social housing maintenance in local authorities with faster reaction times to serious maintenance issues and less stop gap measures to deal with recurring problems. [12965/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown based on local authority area of the current average turn around time for local authority housing that has become vacant; the current number of vacant public housing units; and the number that have been vacant for six months and more and one year and more respectively. [12966/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make any allowance for persons who hold an SPSV licence who recently replaced their vehicle but are now found to be in contravention of new regulation such as those on tinted windows and are unable to pay to replace these windows at this moment in time (details supplied). [12897/13]

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: It will sell them.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: We have sold our water with our gas.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Why not allow the local authorities to handle this, as they should?

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: In the same way we are selling off the forests.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Croke Park Agreement Issues (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information on the implications arising from the loss of supervision and substitution payments for teachers arising from the pending Croke Park Two Agreement, particularly in relation to employment rights for staff who may lose their right to a lunch break. [11755/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way many leaving certificate students received an exemption from Irish from 2008 to 2012; the number of those students who studied another language other than Irish and English; the stage at which the review of the 12/96 circular announced in 2006 is at; and the efforts made by his Department between 2008 and 2012 to reduce the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (6 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department or An Garda Síochána have taken to ensure that any private companies contracted by them to carry out work on behalf of the State are compliant with employment rights legislation. [11570/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Díospóireacht le Daoine Óga (5 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I dtús báire caithfidh mé a rá gur chuala duine an-ábalta anseo inniu. Fuair mé amach go raibh sé an-suimiúil ar fad ag éisteacht libhse. Cheap mé gur daoine le cumas níos mó ná a cheapann sibhse. Amárach beidh mé féin agus duine eile ag plé sa Choiste Iompair agus Meáin Chumarsáide, na...