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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: As the Minister of State knows, we are in the middle of a major housing and homelessness crisis which the Government is failing to address. In the midst of all of this, the Government is complicit in the sale of mortgages by Permanent TSB. The state is a major shareholder, owning 75% of the bank. The bank was bailed out by taxpayers’ money to the tune of €4 billion....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: I do not know if the Minister of State heard that this sale included performing loans and Permanent TSB has admitted that. The Minister of State did not give an explanation regarding how these ended up in this portfolio. Why were local authorities and others not given an opportunity to bid on these units? 6 o’clock What contact was there with the Minister? The Minister of State...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Does he not talk to them?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: We own 75% of it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: So we do not own 75% of the company.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister is saying there is any amount of money for housing-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: -----and now the Minister of State is saying he cannot make it up.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Which is it?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister is telling us he has no problem with money.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister is telling us he has any amount of money for housing. Which is it?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Is the Minister of State denying that?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage Book Sales (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Harry Potter-style economics. The Government is selling off these loans with NAMA and with the banks-----

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Bring down the Government.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Is it any wonder the Minister - and, by extension, the Government - is facing a vote of no confidence? The Government, with the collaboration of Fianna Fáil, has been in power for nearly three years and Fine Gael was in power with the Labour Party from 2011 to 2016. Fianna Fáil was the architect of this crisis. It is no surprise that its Deputies will abstain in the vote on this...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: He said here earlier that he does not support large scale social housing. He said that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: How is it divisive for God's sake?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Maybe if an emergency was declared, Fianna Fáil would vote for it next time, for God's sake.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: What about social housing?

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Today everyone could feel the palpable anger on the streets of Dublin at the Raise the Roof protest outside Leinster House. This anger is not just being heard on Kildare Street but on every street across the country. People from every walk of life came to express their anger and want action, as well as to let the Minister know that this crisis in housing and homelessness never was and never...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The situation is serious.