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- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 569: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the rational for the relocation of administrative staff from offices in Rathdown Road, to the purpose-built social work department in Ballymun rather than to Park House on the North Circular Road, Dublin. [3275/12]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 570: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action being taken to ensure that the relocation of the Ballymun social work department to Park House on the North Circular Road, Dublin, will not damage the provision of mandatory minimum standards of service laid out under the Child Care Act 1991, as well as other legislation, standards, and her policy. [3276/12]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 571: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the work being done to ensure that social work services will not be disrupted in the transition from Health Service Executive competence to that of the Child and Family Support Agency. [3277/12]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 572: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the proposal for relocation of social work services requires full impact assessment and equality proofing to ensure that service is maintained at the mandatory standard outlined by legislation and best practice guidelines. [3278/12]
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: It was not cents but billions of euro.
- Mortgage Arrears (19 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: There are roughly 100,000 distressed mortgages in the State, with â¬1 billion in arrears owed. Some 8.1% or 62,970 mortgages are 90 days or more behind with payments. The average amount of the arrears is just over â¬17,000. There are 46,371 mortgages in arrears for over 180 days. The average arrears in these cases is approximately â¬21,000. The director of FLAC said that the number of...
- Mortgage Arrears (19 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister of State. I am glad to hear we are considering these mortgages before people end up losing their homes. That is very important. However, the practice until lately, which varied in different local authorities and was a source of frustration, was to look at the situation at the very last minute, when people were virtually outside the door with the banks on their backs....
- Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (19 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected management and organisational structures of new further education and training authority SOLAS; and the percentage of its management that will come from the entity previously known as FÃS. [2958/12]
- Written Answers — Third Level Charges: Third Level Charges (19 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that student contribution fee increases beyond 2012 were not included in the comprehensive expenditure report 2012 to 2014, if he will confirm that there will be no further increases beyond that announced in budget 2012. [2959/12]
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Yesterday in the United States and other countries there was a shutdown of websites such as Google, Tumblr, Mozilla and Wikipedia.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: They shut down all day in protest at the Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA. Under our criminal justice Bill, the cyber crime Bill is due to come into force. When will it be published? There are huge ramifications for the sharing of and access to information on the Internet and freedom of speech.
- Dublin Airport Authority (12 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: I met the chairman and we had a long discussion at the committee meeting. There was a concern in terms of the issue of the pay cap of â¬250,000 set by the Minister. It is too much one way or the other but in this time of austerity and given all that is happening in the economy, I have no wish to see us going beyond that amount. The chairman indicated he had no problem with this in...
- Jobs Initiative (12 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: We know that there has been a huge drop in the internal market at the airports. I hope that we can look at more initiatives for the internal market. There has been an increase internationally, which tapered towards the end of last year. With the Olympic Games approaching, are we in contact with our counterparts in the North? Many events have been organised in the North which can feed into...
- Jobs Initiative (12 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: It is open to all.
- Taxi Regulations (12 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Prior to its publication I assume it will go back to the committee for consideration.
- Taxi Regulations (12 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: We have not seen the review.
- Taxi Regulations (12 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: I meant the Oireachtas committee.
- Taxi Regulations (12 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: That is fine.
- National Sports Campus (12 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: It leaked.
- Rail Services (12 Jan 2012)
Dessie Ellis: We had debates on the different projects and Luas BXD is one that has been chosen to move ahead. The EU and IMF were critical of us cutting capital spending, which should be borne in mind. We argued that cutting the capital spend, including metro north, was not good because of all the work that was put in and potential job creation. The Minister has indicated that we are awaiting the...