Results 1,861-1,880 of 4,706 for speaker:Dessie Ellis
- Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Funding (19 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: The Department has clearly not got the message that there is a major crisis in housing. The Government announced a package of €3.8 billion over six years, with €2.5 billion provided in the first three years and €1.3 billion available for the three subsequent years. However, the Government is unlikely to be in office for much more than another six months. Instead of...
- Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Funding (19 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: That was not my point.
- Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Funding (19 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister of State for taking this topical issue. Last week it was reported that €50 million, required by Dublin City Council to deal with the homeless crisis, had not been paid or allocated to the council by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. I spoke to council officials this week and there has been no progress on this. The €50...
- Order of Business (19 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, announced at the Labour Party conference that he was considering the introduction of rent certainty for private tenants. Could the Minister indicate whether any proposal has been brought forward, if the matter been discussed by Cabinet, or if there are any plans to introduce legislation?
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: There is no accommodation.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: There is none. Representatives of Focus Ireland were in Leinster House yesterday. If the Tánaiste had listened to them-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: -----she would have heard that we were in a crisis.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: For God's sake. The Tánaiste would want to wake up.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I can show the Tánaiste the figures.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I will not listen to spoofing.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Forty families per month are becoming homeless, in case the Tánaiste does not know.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I have not said that.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: They have no alternatives.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: The crisis is out of control. Has the Tánaiste not copped on?
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: The Tánaiste does not know what she is on about with her high bleeding tactics.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: The Government is not.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Deputy O'Donovan would know about the builders.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Draft Public Transport Bill 2015: Discussion (13 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I thank the witness for the presentation. Sections 2 and 3 amend the Taxi Regulation Act 2013. Section 7 refers to the fitness of a person who is driving a taxi and whether they can handle somebody who is disabled. Is it not the process that one gets a doctor's certificate to go into the industry in the first place and then one must have a test on an ongoing basis? There will be some...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Draft Public Transport Bill 2015: Discussion (13 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Does it have to be a fairly serious failure or is it just a failure, full stop? That is the point. Somebody could end up suspended for a period, with a loss of revenue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Draft Public Transport Bill 2015: Discussion (13 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: The point I am making is that a person will say he or she is fit to work. It is a merely a declaration by that person. That persons ticks a box or whatever but surely the doctor is the person who declares him or her fit to work and that must be on the form. Is that correct?