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Topical Issue Debate: Light Rail Projects Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister. We all welcome metro north and we are waiting for it to get moving. I wish we could speed up the process as the timeframe is a bit long. There is an onus on the Minister, the Department, the NTA and Transport Infrastructure Ireland. They should look at the project and all the State agencies should be instructed to examine it. It would not cost an arm and a leg to...

Topical Issue Debate: Light Rail Projects Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: It is virgin land.

Topical Issue Debate: Light Rail Projects Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: There have been some welcome developments in transport but they are not ambitious enough and, in some cases, will take many years to complete. The Luas link to Broombridge has been a wonderful success, with many commuters from the Finglas area commuting daily. One of the biggest problems with Broombridge is the lack of parking and set-down places, in addition to the lack of feeder buses to...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The Government has created what, for it at least, seems to be an intractable problem in the current housing crisis. It is more than a crisis - it is a national emergency. Buying a house, particularly in Dublin, has been made increasingly difficult as house prices continue to soar. If this and previous Governments had listened to us sooner, we might have avoided a housing problem turning...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Deputy Casey has a brass neck to argue it.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: We will be-----

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: For many years, women have not only been written out of our history, they have also struggled to have an equal role in our society. The Proclamation of 1916 was the most revolutionary document of its time. It declared equality among all citizens. Unfortunately, consecutive Governments since the foundation of the State have been extremely conservative. They were also heavily influenced by...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Previously, the Minister for Finance stated in the Dáil that his intention is to bring certainty to the structure of the insurance compensation framework, particularly in the event of the liquidation of an insurer that is providing motor insurance in the State. Under current legislation, payments can only be made out of the insurance compensation fund. With the approval of the High...

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, has been telling everyone for a long time that he is planning to introduce an affordable housing scheme. Yesterday a list of forthcoming legislation was published by the Government. Amazingly, despite the significant housing crisis, there was no mention of an affordable housing scheme. Many citizens remain...

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister said he had asked for new legislation.

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: A number of years ago, harsh winters put increased pressure on accident and emergency departments across the country. The seasonal pressures on accident and emergency departments that were evident some years ago are now a crisis that manifests itself all year round. Why do patients, some of whom are very elderly, have to wait for unreasonable and extremely long times in accident and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (16 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: 656. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a cap on the number of patients per general practitioner within the general medical services scheme; if so, the cap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54660/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (16 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors leaving the general medical services scheme from 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54661/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (16 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: 658. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the GMS panel is frozen when a doctor retires or resigns from the GMS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54662/17]

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the families, friends and relatives, some of whom are in the Visitors Gallery tonight, for their fight for justice and for answers about what happened on that fatal night. The Stardust club was a popular venue for young people in the late 1970s and up to the time of the tragedy on 13 February 1981. I regularly attended events there, along with family, friends and neighbours. It was...

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

Dessie Ellis: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle promised me-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

Dessie Ellis: There is a very serious issue relating to 1,300 medical card patients in the Finglas medical centre in Finglas village who have been left high and dry because their GP has given up his GMS contract. They are now being forced to go long distances to a new GP who has taken up this contract. Many of these patients are elderly people or people with disabilities and there is not even a bus...

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

Dessie Ellis: They have until the end of this month when the panel will be frozen until March 2018. As these contracts are included under legislation, are there any plans to review or even change this legislation and has this been brought to the Tánaiste's attention? Does he agree that, at this time of the year, this is an absolute blow to people in the Finglas area? It involves the GMS contract.

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

Dessie Ellis: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)

Dessie Ellis: Will the Taoiseach read about socialism?