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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (28 Feb 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the number of local authority bedsits that there are in the State listing them by local authority area. [10816/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (5 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the provision being made for persons who had been availing of the free travel scheme under Bus Éireann, but because of the removal of these routes and the subsequent replacement by alternative providers cannot avail of free travel; if the route is not new but is with a different provider will an amnesty be made to allow these persons to avail of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (5 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the future of community employment schemes; the way the CE schemes and the Tús programme are being integrated in communities alongside each other and if there has been any feedback of an overlap; if she has plans to integrate these schemes in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11379/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (5 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any plans to close a facility (details supplied) in Dublin 8; if yes, the reason for the closure of this youth homeless facility; and where the young persons currently availing of this facility will be placed. [11021/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a report into the embedded block system failure in the LUAS; the works that were required and carried out; if any further works are required and planned; and if a fund is in place to pay for same. [11499/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any risk assessment has been carried out to establish potential for danger to users of the LUAS due to embedded block system failure which has been identified. [11500/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Díospóireacht le Daoine Óga (5 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I dtús báire caithfidh mé a rá gur chuala duine an-ábalta anseo inniu. Fuair mé amach go raibh sé an-suimiúil ar fad ag éisteacht libhse. Cheap mé gur daoine le cumas níos mó ná a cheapann sibhse. Amárach beidh mé féin agus duine eile ag plé sa Choiste Iompair agus Meáin Chumarsáide, na...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (6 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department or An Garda Síochána have taken to ensure that any private companies contracted by them to carry out work on behalf of the State are compliant with employment rights legislation. [11570/13]

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: It will sell them.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: We have sold our water with our gas.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Why not allow the local authorities to handle this, as they should?

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: In the same way we are selling off the forests.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Croke Park Agreement Issues (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information on the implications arising from the loss of supervision and substitution payments for teachers arising from the pending Croke Park Two Agreement, particularly in relation to employment rights for staff who may lose their right to a lunch break. [11755/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way many leaving certificate students received an exemption from Irish from 2008 to 2012; the number of those students who studied another language other than Irish and English; the stage at which the review of the 12/96 circular announced in 2006 is at; and the efforts made by his Department between 2008 and 2012 to reduce the number of...

Other Questions: Septic Tank Registration Scheme (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Do not penalise him.

Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Many apartment blocks have management companies which will probably take on the role of deciding who will pay what. It will be complicated and create problems. Many of these apartment blocks are in trouble. Can the Minister outline how metering will work in that context? I have encountered many local authority properties where two houses are fed from one line. As far as the footpath,...

Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Many houses have lead pipes, which cause problems.

Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The problem was with individual houses in Whitehall and Santry.

Other Questions: Pyrite Panel Report Recommendations (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister mentioned that he was talking to the banks about setting up a fund in lieu of getting the levy later. Is that still in the pipeline? It is very disappointing that this has not moved forward. I know the Minister has set up the panel, but we need to move quickly. There are 800 houses in serious need. This is urgent. Surely the legislation can be drawn up quickly so that we...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The Taxi Regulation Bill is due in the House shortly. It has already had an airing in the Seanad. The Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Alan Kelly, has said he will meet with taxi representative groups who will outline a large number of problems they have with the legislation. Can consideration of the Bill in the House be delayed until after the...