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- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Therefore, it is part of the motion.
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (1 Dec 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 47 reads:To delete section 18, and substitute the following:“Amendment of section 20 of Principal Act 18. Section 20 of the Principal Act is deleted and the following section is substituted:“20. (1) Subject to subsection (3), a review of the rent under the tenancy of a dwelling may not occur—(a) more frequently than once in each...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Dessie Ellis: They are not doing it.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Dessie Ellis: The numbers have doubled on this Government's watch.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Dessie Ellis: It is one answer. It is not the only one we have.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Dessie Ellis: The Government used it to fund the water meters.
- Planning and Development (Urgent Social Housing Supply) Policy Directive 2015: Motion (26 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: It is claimed the intent of the directive is to support the fast-tracking of the planning process in order for modular units to be put in place, yet the title of this motion is very misleading. The motion masquerades as something to do with the need to urgently increase the supply of social housing, but any fair and responsible definition of "social housing" would conclude that modular units...
- Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: First Stage (26 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: First Stage (26 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Housing Act 1988 and the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to update the definition of “homelessness” to more appropriately address the needs of people experiencing homelessness, to bring the task of homelessness prevention within the remit of the Housing Act 1988, and to provide for rent certainty in the...
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: They cost €191,000 each.
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: These are modular housing.
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: They cost €191,000 in Ballymun.
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Some 22 cost €4.2 million. Is the Government living in another world or something?
- Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: We are trying to stop them.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: They made a mess of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Conviction Rates for Drink Driving: Discussion (25 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I thank the Garda and the RSA for their presentations. It is worrying that one person in ten has admitted to drink driving in the surveys that have been done. That is a massive number. I thought we had moved on as society. The attitude of the 62% who seem to think there is nothing wrong with drink driving is also shocking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Conviction Rates for Drink Driving: Discussion (25 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Sorry; that is what I meant. It is very worrying. However, I am glad the conviction rate has been clarified, because everybody nearly had a heart attack when we heard it. It is approximately 80%, which is below the European average so we must increase that. We have been conveying the message as much as we can, but obviously it must be done more extensively. We must look at every angle....
- Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill is being debated in the Seanad this evening and the Dáil will review the Seanad amendments on Thursday. The process had been very messy and rushed, due to the Government’s foot-dragging. Nonetheless, we need the small measure of delaying rent reviews. Can the Taoiseach outline the remaining progress of the Bill through the...
- Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: It is urgent.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Dessie Ellis: You wanted the process abandoned. That is what you wanted.