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Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Can I be given a time as to when it is coming to the House?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether the development of sustainable, permanent social housing owned by local authorities is an important part of the drive to end long term homelessness. [12957/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's pursuit of the use of social housing bonds to develop more permanent social housing units particularly those that would be in public ownership. [12956/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for measures to ensure that local authorities properly draw down funding allocated to them in order to provide for the needs of local people to whom they are responsible, especially in the case of traveller specific accommodation. [12958/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make a commitment to local authority tenants that their rents will not increase or other services be cut as a result of the levying of the property tax on local authority properties. [12959/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the removal of pyrite from affected homes; the numbers that have successfully been completed in targets for 2013; and when the remediation scheme proposed will be operational. [12960/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on works to an estate (details supplied) in County Longford including the specific works that have been carried out; the timetable for future works and any additional funding which may be available or needed. [12961/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown on a Dáil constituency basis of the number of persons on social housing waiting lists, specifying numbers waiting five years and more and ten years and more. [12962/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to ensure better community relations between the Traveller and settled community particularly in areas which have experienced difficulties with this in the past. [12963/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Statistics (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of publicly owned social housing units that were delivered in 2011 and 2012 respectively; and the targets for same in 2013. [12964/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is undertaking to ensure an improved system of social housing maintenance in local authorities with faster reaction times to serious maintenance issues and less stop gap measures to deal with recurring problems. [12965/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown based on local authority area of the current average turn around time for local authority housing that has become vacant; the current number of vacant public housing units; and the number that have been vacant for six months and more and one year and more respectively. [12966/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make any allowance for persons who hold an SPSV licence who recently replaced their vehicle but are now found to be in contravention of new regulation such as those on tinted windows and are unable to pay to replace these windows at this moment in time (details supplied). [12897/13]

Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Domestic violence plagues society and particularly affects women and children. We have seen examples over the years in our clinics. Will there be a provision in the housing Bill to recognise that domestic violence is a primary cause of homelessness? Safe Ireland and similar groups are looking for such a provision. It is very important. The Taoiseach has said the housing Bill is coming...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: When Fine Gael and the Labour Party entered government, they inherited an utter mess. It could be argued that they did very little even in opposition to articulate an alternative but they certainly did not create the mess of the property boom and bust. They were not at the reins when employment started to plummet. There would be an element of unfairness in blaming the Government for the...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: When Fine Gael and the Labour Party entered government, they inherited an utter mess. It could be argued that they did very little even in opposition to articulate an alternative but they certainly did not create the mess of the property boom and bust. They were not at the reins when employment started to plummet. There would be an element of unfairness in blaming the Government for the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Teanga (13 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad eagras stáit nách bhfuil scéimeanna teanga faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla daingnithe ag an Roinn dóibh; cad atá déanta ag an Aire faoi seo; agus an bhfuil sé i gceist aige treoir a thabhairt do na heagraíochtaí seo scéimeanna teanga a dhaingniú. [13102/13]

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: My party's amendment was ruled out of order on the basis that it was not Revenue-friendly, that is, that there were cost implications involved. However, if the criteria for acceptance of amendments is that there be no cost implications, then we would never have any amendment accepted. It is wrong that the amendment was ruled out of order on that basis. For future reference, is the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I know that.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Is it common?