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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Taxi Regulations (15 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 322. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for not allowing 18-seat vehicles which meet European standards to be licensed as public service vehicles (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [13980/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 778. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to his announcement of local authority social housing targets for 2015 to 2017 announced on 1 April 2015, if he will provide a breakdown of the targets for each local authority, by social housing type, that is rental accommodation scheme, leasing, local authority, voluntary housing association and others. [14146/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (15 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 790. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 31 March 2015, if he will review the decision to ban rent supplement in Ballymun in Dublin 11, in view of the fact that according to the reply, it is the responsibility of his Department. [14375/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Services for People with Disabilities (15 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 869. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for the exemption provided to Irish Rail, regarding access for persons with disabilities, under Statutory Instrument No. 549 of 2014; if this is in breach of any international agreements the State is party to; his plans to hold Irish Rail to account in its responsibility to provide access for persons with disabilities....

Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Does the Deputy know where it is?

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: A sound and stable economy is built on fair, stable and decent work. At the moment we are building an even more unequal and unfair economy than the one we had before the fall of the Celtic tiger. We are building this economy on precarious, low-paid work which brings little protection for workers and their families and puts more strain on social protection to pick up the tab for the gap...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the officials from the Department and the representatives from the medical bureau for coming here. It is disappointing in many ways, because we are all worried about road safety, that there is an issue regarding mutual recognition of disqualifications North and South. A problem exists, although we are reaching some sort of agreement with the UK. When we spoke to the Minister in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Is there a provision for taking hair samples? I believed it was a usable mechanism.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Professor Cusack has.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: A penalty will be imposed if they do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Would the test screen for drugs and alcohol or would they be done separately? If it were being done twice a year, I assume one test could test for drugs and alcohol. It is putting great emphasis on an employer, especially somebody who took cocaine. While one might notice if a person were drunk - they would be falling all over the place or there might be other signs - one would not notice...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (21 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 237. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the cost to the State arising from the rent supplement scheme for each of the years, 1989, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005 ,2008, 2011 and 2013. [15250/15]

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

Dessie Ellis: 621. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with respect to the 27,000 homes managed by approved housing bodies, if he will provide a breakdown of these tenancies, by type, including rental accommodation scheme, long-term leased, and directly owned by the housing body. [15244/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Expenditure (21 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 623. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the cost to the State from the rental accommodation scheme and the long-term leasing initiative for the years 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2013. [15248/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (21 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 624. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households currently on local authority housing waiting lists; and the number of these households which are currently in receipt of rent supplement. [15252/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Expenditure (21 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 688. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount, in total, which remains undrawn down from consecutive sports capital grants; and if he will release those funds to other unsuccessful applicants. [15319/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. We have had a lot of discussion on this, but the thing about which I feel most concern is the question of making employers responsible for testing their employees. That is a very difficult thing to do, because if someone took cocaine it would be very difficult for an employer to have a mechanism to test them. We need to be very careful not to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Will it specifically address the bigger operators? Are we saying that if it is a small family businesses, involving a husband and wife or one or two employees, it will be different. Is it going to be very specific in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I asked about the combination of alcohol and drugs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I do not think it is necessarily saying that blanket rules would apply but it is saying that in clearly defined residential areas a local authority could bring them in. If someone is doing 30, 40 or 50 km/h in a 20 km/h zone, we know that the fatalities go up. One is, therefore, putting a situation in place whereby one can gauge that a person must have been going at a certain speed and he...