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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (12 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The first thing we must do is recognise that there is a major problem with the rental accommodation scheme. Many landlords are now saying they must sell the houses which have been available for rent, with the result that people are ending up homeless or looking for new rental accommodation which is not forthcoming. Rents are rising and it is more attractive in some cases to move into the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (12 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: It is unacceptable that some contracts are for three and four years but landlords are saying properties must be sold six months into the contracts because the banks are forcing them to do so. Under the forthcoming insolvency system, I can see this increasing because banks are putting more and more pressure on landlords to meet their obligations. The families pay the price and it is...

Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund Administration (12 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The Dormant Accounts Fund has been very good to many areas of the country, including my own. The Minister made reference to the fact that the Dormant Accounts Fund comprises a number of different accounts. Are Prize Bonds included at all? I know there are countless bonds sitting in drawers and elsewhere for many years. Nobody seems to know what is happening in this regard and there is no...

Other Questions: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I am not sure how matters are generally arranged in the sequencing of questions, but I had assumed I would have a chance to speak before colleagues were allowed to ask supplementary questions.

Other Questions: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Thank you, Leas-Cheann Comhairle. In regard to HomeBond, that company refused even to meet the committee or engage in any way in its deliberations, which was disappointing. There was a certain arrogance in its position. I have heard a figure of €25 million in regard to it. Perhaps the Minister might indicate whether that is correct. The major issues with the proposed scheme...

Other Questions: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Will the banks be contributing an up-front sum, as the Minister initially indicated?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (12 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 38. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent report from Dublin Region Homeless Agency on the number of persons sleeping rough in the city; his plans to address the growth in these numbers and to provide sufficient emergency accommodation spaces; and his Department's short, middle and long term targets in relation to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Roads Maintenance: Discussion with County and City Managers Association (12 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I thank our guests for their presentation. It is difficult to see how we are going to maintain high standards in view of the cuts that have been imposed and the fact that funding has almost been halved since 2007. In the context of the €50 million provided by the Minister recently, will our guests outline how this money will be prioritised? I had already heard about the rating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Roads Maintenance: Discussion with County and City Managers Association (12 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Is there a contingency fund of any description, or is it that if something happens the local authority goes to the Government?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction will begin on the new school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and when students will be moved to their temporary classrooms. [28464/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 24. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has met with representatives of the Reserve Defence Forces or representative associations to discuss their concerns regarding the recent changes to the Reserve Defence Forces. [29122/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (18 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 25. To ask the Minister for Defence the role of the Naval Service in fishery protection operations in the past year; and if there are any plans to increase same. [29121/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has been denied access to the fund for survivors of institutional abuse in order to pay for their child's education despite having had access to this for older children. [29306/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (18 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 303. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of where the €50 million for the energy efficiency investment programme for local authority homes will be spent. [29455/13]

Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: There have been many tragedies off the Irish coast. The recent tragic deaths of three family members off the Waterford coast have highlighted the urgent need for the mandatory use of personal location beacons. I am told legislation is required to do that. Has the issue been discussed and has the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine indicated that he is planning to examine the...

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Táim an-bhuíoch seans a bheith agam labhairt ar an tairiscint seo. Ireland is not short of heroic men and women of the working class who stood together, sacrificed and struggled for the good of their brothers and sisters; people who toiled all day for low pay so they could put a dinner on the table for their children and in the small spare time they had fought for their union,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when students from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 will be moved to their temporary classrooms. [29616/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Marine Safety (25 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: On 12 June, the bodies of brothers, Shane, Kenny and Paul Bolger, were recovered from the water near Tramore. These experienced fishermen were well known throughout the area and they were well liked. They lost their lives in the same way too many people have lost their lives in the past few years. Working at sea is not the safest job and it never will be. There will always be harsh...

Topical Issue Debate: Marine Safety (25 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Coastal communities have suffered more than most in recent years. We should follow the example of Iceland where, owing to the high safety standards employed, there are almost no fatalities at sea. In 2011, in this country there were 13 accidents involving vessels at sea. Six of these involved fishing vessels, three of which sank, resulting in five fatalities. Some 108 people died at sea...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Eligibility (25 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 108. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the proposed replacement of the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant; the way recipients will be affected when current payments are scheduled to cease; if the review group has reported and the recommendations of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30399/13]