Results 1,061-1,080 of 4,706 for speaker:Dessie Ellis
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: I am only curious about one thing: is there a vetting process? Does Airbnb get clients vetted by the Garda?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: The Government has done a good job of that itself. None of us needs to.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: Some people will-----
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (28 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: 302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will arrange for a safety audit of all existing apartment and commercial blocks built over the years to the present, with a particular emphasis on those built during the Celtic tiger era from 1994 to 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30299/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (28 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: 303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will arrange for fire safety checks on all lift shafts in apartment and commercial blocks to ensure that they are fully compliant with building fire safety standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30300/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (27 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: 496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the funding for the renovation of a building (details supplied); the timeframe of works for its renovation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30038/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: Did we not say that we would reschedule?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: We said that before the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: I welcome the Minister and wish him well in his job. There has been a huge amount of work done over the last year or two in terms of putting plans together by everyone, including this committee, the local authorities, the different Departments and all of the different homelessness and housing agencies. This plan that set up the different pillars, 1 to 5, is by and large a good plan in terms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: They are better and nicer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: Deputy O'Dowd has-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: The Government should declare a housing emergency, review the housing policies and set up a State-run company to co-ordinate house building, which will deliver social and affordable housing-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: -----on a scale which will make a real impact-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: -----and a real difference.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: It is clear to everyone, apart from the Government, that the housing strategy is in tatters. The Minister, Deputy Coveney, promised to end the use of hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation for families by this July.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: The Government's house building figures have been rubbished. The new Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, has today acknowledged that the July figures are not achievable. Meanwhile, the homelessness and housing crisis and the waiting lists have continued to spiral.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: The programme for Government promised to tackle the housing crisis but its ideology of cosying up to the private sector has only added to and enhanced this crisis, leading to the over-pricing of housing and exorbitant rents.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (21 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I am conscious that the working group is in place and has not come back with its report yet, but I have concerns over An Bord Pleanála's decision. I am concerned in turn about the likes of Airbnb and the need for a register. Have Airbnb and other such companies been informed of An Bord Pleanála's decision? Surely, the decision...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (21 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: The alternative would be that they would have to back to the planners and request a change of use. Is that the normal procedure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (21 Jun 2017)
Dessie Ellis: There seem to be a huge number of applications for student accommodation. There is one on Gardiner Street and more coming on stream in Ballymun. This might help the short-term situation.