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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: There are 20 CPOs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: Some 20 to 26-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: They are needed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: Chairman, this is a discussion between two people. I know that other members are trying to contribute. We have only a limited time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: We spoke about land banks. There is a huge amount of land at Dunsink Lane in Castleknock. Much of it was compulsorily purchased over the last while by Fingal County Council but there are no plans in place for building on that site. Recently I was at a meeting with the managers of Fingal County Council which was attended by some Deputies, and it was made clear that it has not been looked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: It does not relate specifically to overcrowding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: One of the reason we ended up with so many voids was that the local authority staff was run down. There is no recruitment in the maintenance section of Dublin City Council. There are no apprenticeships, which we did have in the past. We are all talking about apprenticeships and getting people back into the workforce and producing the workforce. That was a big source of employment in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Dessie Ellis: I appreciate that, but it has a knock-on effect in terms of delivering the voids quickly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (3 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing and family hubs in Dublin to date in 2017; the location of each; the number of housing and family hubs planned for the remainder of 2017 for Dublin; the proposed locations of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41301/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of elderly persons' apartments unoccupied in complexes for elderly persons, for example, those in Glasanaon court and Mellows court, Finglas; if such empty bedsits or apartments can be renovated to a standard to accommodate the large number of elderly persons awaiting...

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: The figures released during the census of 2015 showed that 183,000 vacant homes throughout the country. Some 35,293 were in Dublin. This does not reflect the true figure of vacant homes, because local authorities just do not have the resources to deal with this and to ascertain what the true figure is. To properly identify them and determine the true figures vacant home officers must be...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: What is seldom is wonderful.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: He must give it to a research group.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: I want to discuss the availability of Fingal County Council lands in Dunsink Lane for social and affordable housing and the positive effects that this would deliver and ask why we have sat on these lands for so many years when there is such a crisis in housing. For many years, I have been concerned at Fingal County Council's lack of action in regard to Dunsink Lane and have raised it...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: What I find very frustrating in all of this is I have been raising this with Fingal County Council for years and we have had study after study. What we are looking at is a new study to see what is suitable. The Minister of State mentioned Dunsink tip head, but that is 200 acres on the opposite side of the road to where we are speaking about, which is 300 acres. This is bigger than the...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: Ba mhaith liom a rá go bhfuilimid i gcoinne an Bhille seo. This legislation is another debacle in the long and sorry water charges saga. As we all remember and Fianna Fáil would like us to forget, the water charges fiasco began with it and its inability to stand up to the troika. It accepted almost every ridiculous, divisive and debilitating demand from it. It agreed to impose...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Staff (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 387. To ask the Minister for Health when the replacement for the occupational therapist for the Finglas area on maternity leave will be put in place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43921/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 396. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce suboxone for the treatment of narcotic addiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43952/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (17 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: 397. To ask the Minister for Health the allocation of funding that each of the local drugs and alcohol task forces received, in tabular form. [43953/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)

Dessie Ellis: There are plans to close the post office covering Glasnevin and Finglas East at the end of November due to the retirement of a postmistress.