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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for the new building in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 where works were due to commence in 2014. [1688/15]

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: We would not have made cutbacks of €1.2 billion from 2008 until now.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Because the Government cut the budget. There was a cut of €1.2 billion from 2008 to now. That is why the local authority houses were boarded up in the first place.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: There was a cut of €1.2 billion.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: After she starved them in the first place.

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: For four years, the Government has shown an insistence that public sector workers do more for less. They must do more work for less money in a shorter period and with less help. Gardaí, in particular, have been victims of this aspect of austerity. The force is being asked to enforce more laws with fewer gardaí, Garda stations and vehicles, less pay and reduced allowances for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (20 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is facing eviction; her plans to address the issues raised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2296/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the delivery of 5,386 social houses in 2015 as promised in his Social Housing Strategy 2020, including the breakdown of these units by local authority; the number of these units that will be covered by existing planning permissions held by local authorities across the State; the number of these units for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that the 5,386 social houses as detailed in his Social Housing Strategy 2020 will be built and tenanted in 2015. [2959/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department has not yet informed local authorities of the social housing budget for 2015; and the allocations for each local authority in tabular form comparing the 2015 allocation to that provided by his Department in 2010, 2011 and 2013. [2960/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details on the proposed off balance sheet funding mechanisms for the provision of social housing referred to in his Social Housing Strategy 2020, including timeframes for the establishment of each structure (details supplied); if the structures will be State-wide, regional or local authority-based; and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 216. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has an estimate or target for the total spend required to deliver all of the targets in his Social Housing Strategy 2020 from Government and non-Government sources including on balance sheet expenditure, off balance sheet expenditure, borrowed finance and private sector investment; if his Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 218. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of social housing units provided each year from 2000 to 2014 broken down by type, local authority, approved housing body, leasing, RAS and including the average cost to the State per unit in the case of leasing and RAS per year for each type of housing for the period...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 219. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of long-term voids to be returned to social housing use under the new arrangements outlined in his Social Housing Strategy 2010; if he will provide in tabular form the location of these voids by local authority; the timeframe by year for returning these voids to use; and the average cost per unit per...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 229. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding funding. [3055/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 230. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding funding. [3056/15]

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Agreements: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister for appearing before the committee. Canada is the most important in terms of these agreements. Does Ireland conduct an audit of all the countries where we are not up to speed in regard to agreements and particularly the countries with which we trade most? Is any country being left outside the loop from an EU point of view and from Ireland's point of view? The Minister...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: The Government starved Dublin City Council of funds.

Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I welcome the Bill, like many citizens who have been the victims of rogue clampers and a process which has been seen generally to be rather frustrating to deal with and often too rigid in application. In particular, I commend the process by which the Bill has been developed. It began at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications as the work of a cross-party group for the...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Dismiss it then.