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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Data (6 May 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 600. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that a total of €75 million remains outstanding from previous rounds of the sports capital programme and from special allocations, if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount outstanding for applications from each local authority area; and the contact or discussions he has had with each local authority on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (6 May 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the assistant commissioner and the Irish Road Haulage Association for their presentations. This is probably the one issue that seems to be very contentious. Many issues arise over the considerable emphasis being placed on the employer in the Bill in terms of carrying out tests. It is very difficult because prescription drugs are included. A person could test positive for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (7 May 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to ensure that any bus company awarded a public service obligation route will continue to accommodate the free travel pass scheme. [17972/15]

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?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Draft Public Transport Bill 2015: Discussion (13 May 2015)

Dessie Ellis: In terms of older taxi drivers, they may be able to handle luggage but if they cannot help a disabled person into a car, what happens?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Draft Public Transport Bill 2015: Discussion (13 May 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Not all cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Draft Public Transport Bill 2015: Discussion (13 May 2015)

Dessie Ellis: In terms of payments-----

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.