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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Issues (2 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 501. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue that was received from call out charges for the fire service from 2011 and 2012. [31526/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (2 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 502. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if rates are payable on the old health centre and old swimming pool in Ballymun, Dublin. [31529/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Swimming Pool Projects (2 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 503. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status and future plans for the old swimming pool in Ballymun, Dublin. [31530/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (2 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 504. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of devolving planning back to local authorities; and if he will provide a breakdown of same. [31549/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (2 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 645. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a medical card [31548/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Calming Measures (2 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 706. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the need for traffic calming or other measures to slow traffic will be considered at a location (details supplied) as four children have been knocked down there in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31546/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy (2 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 712. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the implementation of Action 94 of the Road Safety Strategy 2013-2020; and if he will provide a date for publication of the report. [31779/13]

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: In a real republic, one that honours the commitments of those who brought this State into being through their sacrifice and struggle, equality would be the watch-word of any Government of the people. It would be at the heart of every policy and would be the aim of every initiative. That kind of approach would not just honour our past but ensure our future, not simply as an economy or a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that guidance counsellors in many schools are reporting that up to seventy per cent of their case load is now taken up by pastoral care and counselling with higher incidents of self-harm, drug abuse, children suffering from depression, abuse and the effects of family breakdown; and if he will respond...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to the claims that the reduction in the number of school guidance counsellors reflects his lack of understanding of the important role they perform in schools and that he is also denying children and young persons access to important supports and services when at school. [32219/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (Restricted Electrical Works Regulations) 2013: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I welcome the regulation. I am a technician and am well used to dealing with electrical items. However, the regulation relates to domestic situations, but a broader range needs to be considered. There are rules for factories and other businesses, but some regulations of a similar nature would be useful in that respect. Enforcing this regulation will be difficult. Inspectors have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (Restricted Electrical Works Regulations) 2013: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Whatever about physical work undertaken on a fuse box in a house or otherwise, will interference through the use of electronic equipment, with electrical or other outputs, attract a fine? Magnets and other tools are often used to roll back meters. Is this a matter for Electric Ireland or will such interference be an offence under this regulation and attract penalties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (Restricted Electrical Works Regulations) 2013: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I appreciate that. I was asking if Electric Ireland would be the port of call in relation to interference with meters and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (Restricted Electrical Works Regulations) 2013: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: It is happening a fair bit these days.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (Restricted Electrical Works Regulations) 2013: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: There are various ways of doing it. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The lies they were telling. Use the word.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Delivery of a universal health scheme was promised by the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and was also in the programme for Government. We were told it would be delivered before the end of the term of the Government, which is in just over two years' time. People are no longer able to afford private health care and are being forced to leave it. The Tánaiste and his party believe in a public...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Will we see it before the end of the term of Government?

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Is Deputy Maloney not into mediation?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Care Services (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32590/13]