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Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: This fully fitted post office and Spar shop have a footfall of 8,000 to 10,000 people per week. Over 20 people are employed in them and there are almost 30 other businesses locally. There is no shortage of business people to run it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: I am coming to that. An Post has made a decision solely because it wants a number of post offices closed across the country. It has nothing to do with their viability. The programme for Government states that the Government would actively encourage payments at post offices and enhance the role of services in post offices, which would deliver a wide range of services. When will the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: It has somebody.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration (18 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special provision will be made for those special needs assistants on income supports who took part in his Department's July provision and are not already in full-time employment in order that payment for this July work for such SNAs will be made promptly and not in November as is the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (18 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 136. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to private rehabilitation beds and nursing homes from the health budget due to lack of bed spaces in the National Rehabilitation Hospital. [44122/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data (18 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for wheelchairs waiting 0 to three months, three to six months, six to 12 months and longer than 12 months, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44141/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (18 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the procurement process used by the HSE to acquire wheelchairs; the names of the suppliers of wheelchairs including specialist wheelchairs to the HSE; the types of wheelchairs supplied to the HSE; the cost to the HSE of each type of wheelchair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44142/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: Ba mhaith liom a rá go bhfuilimid i gcoinne an Bhille seo. This legislation is another debacle in the long and sorry water charges saga. As we all remember and Fianna Fáil would like us to forget, the water charges fiasco began with it and its inability to stand up to the troika. It accepted almost every ridiculous, divisive and debilitating demand from it. It agreed to impose...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: What I find very frustrating in all of this is I have been raising this with Fingal County Council for years and we have had study after study. What we are looking at is a new study to see what is suitable. The Minister of State mentioned Dunsink tip head, but that is 200 acres on the opposite side of the road to where we are speaking about, which is 300 acres. This is bigger than the...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: I want to discuss the availability of Fingal County Council lands in Dunsink Lane for social and affordable housing and the positive effects that this would deliver and ask why we have sat on these lands for so many years when there is such a crisis in housing. For many years, I have been concerned at Fingal County Council's lack of action in regard to Dunsink Lane and have raised it...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: He must give it to a research group.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Staff (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 387. To ask the Minister for Health when the replacement for the occupational therapist for the Finglas area on maternity leave will be put in place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43921/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 396. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce suboxone for the treatment of narcotic addiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43952/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 397. To ask the Minister for Health the allocation of funding that each of the local drugs and alcohol task forces received, in tabular form. [43953/17]

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: What is seldom is wonderful.

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: The figures released during the census of 2015 showed that 183,000 vacant homes throughout the country. Some 35,293 were in Dublin. This does not reflect the true figure of vacant homes, because local authorities just do not have the resources to deal with this and to ascertain what the true figure is. To properly identify them and determine the true figures vacant home officers must be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (3 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing and family hubs in Dublin to date in 2017; the location of each; the number of housing and family hubs planned for the remainder of 2017 for Dublin; the proposed locations of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41301/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of elderly persons' apartments unoccupied in complexes for elderly persons, for example, those in Glasanaon court and Mellows court, Finglas; if such empty bedsits or apartments can be renovated to a standard to accommodate the large number of elderly persons awaiting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister and his officials for attending. Everyone here, including the Minister, accepts that we need more social housing. It is important that we and the local authorities build more social housing in bigger quantities. We have seen applications for ten or 20 units. That is not going to solve the problem. There is almost the same amount of work involved in dealing with those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: It is only a matter of changing planning permission.