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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (17 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 240. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses categorised as buy-to-let houses. [24176/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 244. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funding to finish the insulation of the remaining 183 homes in Ballymun in Dublin 11. [24201/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 245. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reinstate the cut to the social regeneration fund in Ballymun in Dublin 11 for 2015 and future years, as the regeneration is not complete and this cut is having severe consequences to services in the area. [24202/15]

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: The year 2018 is too far away in the context of the introduction of this levy. There is also scope to include properties outside of those zoned residential as developers sitting on commercial property is also not in the interests of communities and the economy. The exclusion of all properties in negative equity, particularly larger properties or ones in areas of high housing demand, is also...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (16 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Tá 30 nóiméad agam, ach táim ag roinnt mo chuid ama leis an Teachta Michael Colreavy.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (16 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Tá rudaí maithe sa Bhille seo, ach tá an Bille an-lag ar fad i dtaca le Páirt V agus in áiteanna eile agus sin an fáth go bhfuilim ag vótáil i gcoinne an Bhille. This Bill contains some positive steps which could be a lot stronger in some places but are none the less welcome. Unfortunately though, as in most cases when the Government gets something...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Obligation Services (16 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 891. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the tendering of public service obligation bus routes. [23235/15]

Central Bank (Mortgage Interest Rates) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: It is you who are the same.

Central Bank (Mortgage Interest Rates) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: With this Bill, Sinn Féin and Deputy Pearse Doherty are asking for nothing more than for the Government to do what it said it would: to act forcefully and decisively with banks to protect the public and, among them, the homeowners who bailed out these banks. In truth, the steps contained in the Bill would only be a small but important move towards making that commitment a reality. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Citizens Information Board: Chairperson Designate (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. There is no doubt that even since Christmas and following the death of Jonathan Corrie that this situation has got increasingly worse. The number who are homeless has nearly doubled and it is mainly families who now find themselves in this situation. I attended emergency meeting after emergency meeting at Christmas and we brought onstream...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I am coming to my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I need to elaborate on the issue before I pose my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I understand that but I am very frustrated about this issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: People who were in receipt of rental supplement will now be in receipt of a housing assistance payment. No new people will be in receipt of such a payment and that is another problem. The introduction of the HAP initiative was part of the Government's policy to improve the position, but that has not happened and we are barely holding on to what we have in place. Moving on to my questions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: What is the Department's expenditure on rent supplement and on the rental accommodation scheme? The last figure we heard for the number of people in receipt of rent supplement was 78,000 but that figure has decreased to 71,000. That indicates that 7,000 of that initial number are no longer in receipt of that supplement. Some of those people are now in receipt of a housing assistance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I will leave it at that as I would have a million questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I hope I will get answers to some of my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: It is a lot more complicated than that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Many speakers today stated that the market sets rent levels. The problem is that when there is insufficient housing stock, house prices continue to rise and so, too, does the cost of rent. We need to find a way to control the market. In other words, we must ensure rents are not increased by any more than the cost of inflation. We will be continually faced with crises in this area if that...