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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (30 Apr 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 476. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social leasing agreements between private owners and local authorities that have been activated since February 2011; the number that are still active; the number of persons housed in units under social leasing; the monthly cost to local authorities of these leases; and any other expenses related to these...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 487. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will give assurances that his Department will make funding available that Tuath Housing carry out the long overdue and essential repairs on Gallery Quay Apartments; and if he will provide an update on any discussions he has had with Tuath Housing regarding the issues at Gallery Quay. [19344/14]

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: The Tánaiste could do with a bit of memory.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: Táim an-bhuíoch deis a bheith agam labhairt ar an mholadh seo agus tacaíocht a thabhairt dó. I thank the Technical Group for raising the issue of housing through its Private Members' time this week. It is an issue close to my heart and that of Sinn Féin. I have raised the issue of housing in the Dáil almost every week since my election. Sinn Féin...

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: Now there is no hotel accommodation and people are being turned away from homelessness services. Given all of this, how will it be possible to end long-term homelessness by 2016? Voluntary housing bodies can play a role in the solution, but they do not have the capacity to be the solution by themselves. The State has a responsibility to provide housing through local authorities, and it is...

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: That is what taxes are for - PRSI, USC-----

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: Down the road they will privatise it, when all the concessions are gone.

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: It happened with the bin charges. There were waivers for the first few months and then they privatised it.

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I have to respond to what they are saying.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Discounted Travel Schemes (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount it would cost his Department to extend discounted travel schemes to everyone in full-time education under the age of 18 years old. [20446/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I have other meetings to attend. We know there is a massive housing crisis, and a homelessness crisis in particular. Since 2008 we have had cuts of €1 billion in the housing budget. We should not mask the figures. Even last year €60 million was cut from the housing budget. We keep hearing that more funding is being added but that is not the case. We should put that in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I addressed a couple of questions to the local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: The issue here is that it is being watered down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: The problem we have with this issue is that the rules seem to differ across the various local authorities. Some local authorities are adopting a hardline attitude to the owners of properties and will not move until the issue of ownership is resolved. Dublin City Council has been much more flexible in the sense that it accepts there is a housing need. It will allow a person to access rent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: My point is that some local authorities are not even doing that.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has carried out any review of the effectiveness and benefit of certificate of professional competence, CPC, courses for professional drivers; if so, what were his findings and, if not, if he will commit to one as soon as possible. [20632/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that certificate of professional competence, CPC, courses for professional drivers are relevant or useful to those taking them; and his plans to reform the model in operation, possibly by adding an on-the-road element to the course curriculum. [20661/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Services Funding (13 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I welcome the Minister to his new job and wish him all the best in it. There is a crisis developing in our public crèches throughout the country and in particular with the Jigsaw project, the Darndale Belcamp Integrated Childcare Services. Over the past few years, there have been cuts to the budgets across a broad range of funders. In the case of Darndale, 260 child care places are...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Services Funding (13 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister. In the past, the HSE promised the centre funding for a specific number of staff and 40 children and operational costs, which never materialised. Instead, it reduced funding by €300,000 in the past five years. Had the commitment been honoured, it would have given an additional €191,000 for 2014. The Minister could investigate whether the HSE reneged on a...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (13 May 2014)

Dessie Ellis: Irish to follow. We have waited more than three years for a significant legislation on housing from this Government. This Bill is certainly significant and contains some improvements to how local authority tenancies are managed but it will do very little to change the course of the housing crisis we currently face. Currently, just under 90,000 households are on housing waiting lists across...