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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (12 Mar 2019)

Dessie Ellis: 716. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost of works to date on dwellings which were new builds as part of the Ballymun regeneration project and have since required remediation works (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12178/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Extradition Arrangements (26 Mar 2019)

Dessie Ellis: 500. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the case of a person (details supplied) facing extradition to Lithuania in view of the conditions faced by prisoners on pre-trial detention in Lithuanian prisons; his further views regarding the removal of a number of judges as a result of an anti-corruption investigation raising the potential for the denial of...

Autism Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2019)

Dessie Ellis: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a thabhairt do gach éinne sa Visitors Gallery. Bringing up a child with autism can be challenging for parents, particularly when other people do not understand the issues involved. Parents often find it more difficult to get their child access to educational and other services because of perceived issues related to the child’s condition....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (18 Apr 2019)

Dessie Ellis: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and dates of fire safety inspections that have been carried out at a centre (details supplied) from 2018 to date; the results of the inspections if they were carried out; if not, the reason such inspections were not carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18154/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Testing (18 Apr 2019)

Dessie Ellis: 192. To ask the Minister for Health if Forensic Science Ireland tests for potency of cannabis seized; if it tests for the purity of cannabis seized; if it confirms the presence of other substances in the cannabis, the details of the substances; the quantity of the other substances should they be present in the cannabis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18201/19]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: I support this amendment. It has posed an awful problem for many people to get back their deposits but if the deposit was set at an even higher level, that would pose a bigger problem. A deposit of a month's rent is a fair amount. We should not ask for more than that. Many people are struggling and it is proving nearly impossible for potential tenants to get additional money from a...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: There is ample evidence to say that 90 days' notice is sufficient. Certainly 28 days' notice after six months is not good enough. We have heard of people dragging three, four or five children across the city looking for places under HAP. People are being pushed onto HAP and there are no places to be found. It has proved impossible for people who have been served an eviction notice to find...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: I will be moving amendment No. 21.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: I move amendment No. 21: In page 15, to delete line 34 and substitute the following:“ Less than 6 months 90 days”.

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: It should come as no surprise to anyone that Fianna Fáil has put together a Bill on quads and scramblers that is both ill-thought through and focused on forthcoming local elections. In October 2018, the Sinn Féin spokesperson on transport, Deputy Imelda Munster, and I brought to the Dáil a comprehensive Bill to regulate quads and scramblers. We made it clear at the time that...

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: Councillor McAuliffe made it clear that Fianna Fáil was wrong to oppose our Bill.

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: I know, but I had to address that matter.

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: It was not. The Deputy is wrong.

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: It was. The Deputy is totally wrong.

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: That was in Ballymun.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Districts (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: 508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reverse the decision to downgrade Gorey Garda district resulting in the loss of its superintendent in 2013; the number of gardaí in the Gorey area in each of the years 2007 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19337/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Funding (8 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: 598. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing drugs crisis in north County Wexford and that a group (details supplied) involved in the community response to the crisis has had its funding cut by 30%; his plans to address the crisis in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19336/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: No lessons learned.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: This proposed constitutional amendment is not one we ask for lightly. We are in a housing and homelessness crisis but the Government is not treating it with the urgency it should. That is a serious charge but, unfortunately, it is true. I knock on doors in my constituency, speak to people and listen to their concerns. In a constituency like Dublin North-West, there are many issues, but...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Dessie Ellis: Those houses were sold off to vulture funds.